CR promises increased speeds on Harbour line soon

Central Railway (CR) today said efforts to increase the speed of local trains on the Harbour line of Mumbai suburban network were on.

"We are working on increasing the speed of local trains from the current 80 kmph to 105 kmph between Mankhurd and Panvel section and it will result in saving 10 to 15 minutes," S K Jain, Divisional Railway Manager of Mumbai Division of CR said.

"The increase in speed will improve the punctuality of trains, which is already getting better and better," he said adding that suburban punctuality for 2016-17 was 87.3 per cent which improved further to 89.1 per cent last year.

Jain also said that there has been a lot of track improvement including renewal on the Harbour line.

"CR have also taken a slew of measures on reliability front to improve the punctuality and therefore, there has been a reduction in asset failures. Incidences of rail fracture, signalling failures and Over Head Equipments (OHE) failure have reduced substantially," he said.