Mumbai : A jumbo block will be operated on Western Railway (WR) from 11.30pm to 2.30am on Up line and from 1.20am to 4.20am on Down fast line between Virar and Vasai Road stations during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday for maintenance of tracks, signaling and overhead equipment. Therefore, there will be no day block this Sunday.
During the block, some mail/express trains may be delayed by 10 to 15 minutes. WR will run three festival special trains between Mumbai Central-Mangalore Junction (Jn.) Ahmedabad-Mangalore Jn. and Indore-Kochuveli.
The bookings for train no. 09009 Mumbai Central-Mangalore Jn. weekly superfast special train and 09415 Ahmedabad-Mangalore Jn. weekly superfast special train will open on Sunday while the bookings for train no 09310 Indore- Kochuvelli superfast Suvidha
special train will open on Saturday.
Train no. 09009 Mumbai Central-Mangalore Jn. weekly superfast special train will leave Mumbai Central at 11.15am on Wednesdays (December 23 and 30) and will reach Vasai Road next day (Thursday) at 12.30am and arrive at Mangalore Jn. at 7.15pm on the same day (Thursday).
Meanwhile, train no. 09415 Ahmedabad-Mangalore Jn. weekly superfast special train will leave Ahmedabad at 4.50 hrs on Thursdays (December 24 and 31) and will reach Vasai Road the next day (Friday) at 12.40am and arrive at Mangalore Jn. at 6.15pm on the same day (Friday).
Train no. 09310 Indore-Kochuvelli (weekly) ‘Superfast’ Suvidha special train will leave Indore at 9.05pm on Tuesdays, (December 22 and 29) and will reach Vasai Road next day (Wednesday) at 11.20am and arrive at Kochuvelli at 7.10pm on the third day (Thursday).