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Mumbai suburban railway’s most ambitious rejuvenation plan — the third phase of the Mumbai Urban Transport Project— got started recently with Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC) calling for engineering design for three major components. These are the construction of two more lines between Virar and Dahanu, the creation of a two-line suburban corridor between Panvel and Karjat and a 4km elevated ...

The Oval Maidan-Churchgate-Virar elevated corridor on the Mumbai suburban rail section will be built using a standard gauge track with a width of four feet and eight-and-a-quarter inches, as opposed to the normal five feet and six inches wide track for broad gauge trains used in India. This will make the train coaches on the elevated corridor 3.22 metres wide ...