SUBURBAN ORIGINATING PASSENGERS CROSS 40 LAKH
Daily Originating Suburban Passengers on Central Railway during the year 2012-13 (1.4.2012 to 31.1.2013) have risen to approximately 40.31 lakh as compared to 39.96 lakh during the same period last year. on Deepavali Day, the figure was 43.1 lakh.
CAPACITY AUGMENTATION on CR FROM 2008-09 TILL DATE
During the last 4 years, CR has tremendously increased its carrying capacity. CR has increased the services from 1410 in 2008-09 to 1596 at present (around 13.2% increase). The number of coaches in service have increased from 13998 in 2008-09 to 17451 at present (around 24.6% increase).
Central Railway is now running 1596 daily suburban trains in Mumbai by utilising 119 rakes.
