Rajendra B. Aklekar
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Journalist @mid_day Author of multiple books on India's rail history & heritage. Trains, trams & buses. Biographer of Dr. E. Sreedharan. Museology @csmvsmumbai
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Maharashtra transport minister poses as customer, catches Rapido bike operating illegally in #Mumbai
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After honeymoon coach, now worship rituals in saloon coach of Indian Railways. Unidentified location.
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A tiger majestically crosses a rail track as a train waits, somewhere in India.
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URGENT APPEAL & INTERVENTION Mumbai to Thane is the original line of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR), the first commercial passenger stretch in the country. A part of the old Sion station (midway between Mumbai-Thane) with GIPR brackets is currently being dismantled for line expansion. An appeal to save some of the old brackets for the local heritage gallery or the national musuem.. These relics are the last few central pieces of India's railway history, the first and original line of Indian railways. Ministry of Railways Mumbai Heritage
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A significant first on India's Western Dedicated Freight Corridor on Saturday. Indian Railways has run its first double-stack long-haul (422km distance) container train from JNPT to Varnama in Vadodara division — carrying 360 TEUs. The 1.3km rake left at 7 pm on 21 August 2026, formed by combining two double-stack rakes. (One TEU is one long 20-foot container.)
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Mumbai Pune rail tunnels have turned into rivers. #MumbaiRains
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Agra Cantonment station. RPF bullies drag and beat up Deputy Station Superintendent (DySS) on duty. Incident as per preliminary info: Visakhapatnam-Amritsar Hirakud Express arrived at Agra Cantt at 10.51 am and departed after its scheduled halt. A woman passenger had deboarded the station to buy the famous sweet Petha and was trying to board the train after it had started moving. The Dy SS, noticing the situation, intervened and instructed the train manager over his walkie talkie to stop the train to ensure the passenger's safety. The RPF personnel detained the husband and wife on allegations of alarm chain pulling (ACP), penalised them Rs 1,000. This led to a dispute between RPF personnel and operating staff over the reason for the unscheduled halt. The railways have set up an inquiry and will come up with a sanitised version of the incident.
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This is how the Mathura train climbed up.. cctv footage from the driving cab.
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Power of the pen! Walking through the newly created entry point & bridge of Metro and suburban train for seamless connectivity at Ghatkopar station for the first time today. From initiation to sustained follow ups, this took seven years. But feel proud, this was required here! Mid Day
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Non-AC door closing EMU local train that arrived at Kurla carshed in Mumbai. Here are the key differences: *The coach is built on an AC EMU shell, but maintaining the various classes of first class (with cushion seats), ladies, the disabled one and others. Hence though vestibular, it has physical partitions to segregate these coaches. *The windows are wider 1,900m with sliding glass panels like buses as compared to 900m windows in existing trains. *The blowers are powerful forcing 10,000 cubic m/hr air into the coach, with two such units in every coach which means 20,000 cubic m/hr air in each coach. *The leg space between the two seats has been increased for a comfortable seating and wider gangway. *The luggage compartment at either end of the train is two times larger than the existing ones. *The doors have been shut and along with glass panels on the top, to improve air circulation, these coaches feature louvered doors (slatted) that allow air movement while keeping doors closed for safety.
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Mumbai-Pune rail link. More videos of the scale of disruption #MumbaiRains
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Walking up and down the city, two of the stretches that require attention as of today are the Ghatkopar West skywalk scary staircase linking the Metro (on the left) and the beginning of disorder of tiles on the new Matunga Road (WR) BMC foot bridge.
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Malad station incident CCTV footage. A 31-year-old Mathematics professor was stabbed to death following a minor altercation that escalated inside a Mumbai local train as it approached Malad railway station. The dispute reportedly began over alighting from the crowded coach, after which the attacker pulled out a sharp weapon and stabbed the victim in the abdomen. The victim collapsed at the station and later succumbed to his injuries despite medical assistance. The footage shows the accused running away. The accused has now been arrested within 24 hours of the incident. #Mumbai #MumbaiRailway
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