24 Trains from (BOR)BOISAR to (ADH)ANDHERI

FEW WR TRAIN SERVICES TO BE AFFECTED DUE TO BLOCK BETWEEN JOGESHWARI - GOREGAON SECTION

In order to carry out the work of re-girdering of Bridge No. 46 between Jogeshwari & Goregaon, a 14 hour block will be undertaken o­n both UP & DOWN local lines as well as UP & DOWN Harbour lines. The block will be from 00.00 hrs to 14.00 hrs of 20^th/21^st May, 2023. Due to this block, few suburban train services plying over Western Railway and some Mail / Express trains will be affected.

According to a press release issued by Shri Sumit Thakur – Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, during the block the trains will be worked as under:

1)All UP & DOWN Local line slow services will be worked o­n UP & DOWN Fast lines between Andheri & Goregaon and will not halt at RAM MANDIR for want of platform.

2)All the Harbour line services departing from Central Railway will o­nly run up to Bandra during the block period.

3)Some Churchgate - Borivali slow services will be short terminated and reversed from Andheri.

4)CSMT – Goregaon local departing Ex CSMT at 13.52 & Panvel - Goregaon local departing Ex Panvel at 10.37 will remain cancelled. 

5)Goregaon – CSMT local departing Ex Goregaon at 12.53 & Goregaon - Panvel local departing Ex Goregaon at 12.14 will remain cancelled. 

6)Churchgate – Borivali local departing Ex Churchgate at 12.16 hrs & 14.50 hrs will be run upto Virar.

7)Borivali – Churchgate local departing Ex Borivali at 13.14 hrs & 15.40 hrs will be cancelled and instead two extra Fast local trains will be run Ex Virar to Churchgate at 13.45 hrs & 16.15 hrs

8)During the block, UP & DOWN Mail/Express trains will be delayed by 10 -15 minutes.

Detailed information to this effect is available with concerned Station Masters. Passengers are requested to kindly take note of the same.

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WR VIGILANCE TEAM COMES DOWN HEAVILY o­n TOUTS DURING THE o­nGOING SUMMER VACATION PERIOD

A case of fake ticket racquet in Mail Express Trains was detected and the culprit was apprehended by the Vigilance Team

Western Railway’s Vigilance team has come down heavily against touts and initiated a major drive during the o­ngoing summer vacation period against the nuisance of touts.

According to a press release issued by Shri Sumit Thakur – Chief Public Relations Officer, during the vacation season the demand for reserved tickets are very high and the touts try to make good of this opportunity by deceiving gullible passengers. The Vigilance Department of WR came to know about an instance of touting and laid a trap to nab the culprits. A Vigilance team comprising of Shri Manoj Yadav, Shri Sanjay Sharma, Shri Sandeep Golatkar, Ms Neha Mathur and Shri Ravi Sathe conducted a check recently in Sakinaka area of Mumbai suburb wherein a culprit named Alim was nabbed possessing confirmed tickets of long distance trains amounting to around Rs. 1.4 lakh, which he was selling at premium rates. He was apprehended & handed over to IPF - Andheri and a case has been registered under section 143 of Railway Act. o­n further scrutiny, it came to light that these tickets were duplicate tickets printed o­n replica of Railway stationary. The modus operandi was that the tatkal tickets were generated from far off remote locations of the country and contents were flashed to agents over Mumbai as it was not possible to get these original tickets delivered in a day. Agents got these tickets printed from their office printers and delivered to passengers at exorbitant rates. It is quite impossible to differentiate whether the tickets are original or fake through naked eyes. The mastermind behind this racket, Afzal is absconding and a special team comprising of Vigilance & RPF personnel have been formed to investigate the matter further.

Shri Thakur further informed that the Vigilance Team of WR is always o­n the forefront to conduct such types of checks in order to curb the menace of touting as well as such unauthorized & irregular activities

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