Mumbai: Power outage hits local train services

Mumbai faced a major power outage with no electricity in most areas of the finance capital for over an hour on Sunday. Due to this outage life line of city ' local train services ' also hits badly and apart from prestigious August Kranti Rajdhani Express, 130 local services of WR also got delayed and around 75 local services were canceled.

"Due to failure of M/s TATA power supply from 9.42 am, there was no train movement between Churchgate and Andheri. However, as an interim measure supply was extended from Jogeshwari substation and Services were restored at 10.44 am. Tata Supply was also restored at 10.53 am .Train No 12954 August Kranti Rajdhani Express arrived late at Mumbai Central by approx. 30 minutes. Over 75 suburban trains were cancelled and 130 trains were delayed" said spokesperson of WR.

On 27th February 2022, the MSETCL transmission line from Kalwa to Trombay had massive voltage fluctuations causing tripping of Trombay Salsette-1 on overload. This affected South Mumbai electricity distribution system. However, Tata Power’s Hydro plants were intact, and the Bhira Hydro Plant got islanded and synchronised. Electricity has been restored to essential services" said another officials.


However, Central Railway (CR) said it's most of trains were running normally on all suburban corridors , only few of them got delayed up to 10 minutes.


"Power supply was tripped momentarily on Harbour and Main line from 9.49-52am" tweeted Shivaji Sutar, said CPRO of CR adding that only 15 trains were got delayed up to 10 minutes , rest were runs as per schedule.