The Central Railway (CR) and Western Railway (WR) will carry out a mega block and jumbo block, respectively, to maintain the infrastructure and carry out maintenance work of tracks, signalling and overhead equipment, on Sunday, November 8, 2020.
The Jumbo Block of four and half hours will be taken in Up and Down fast lines between Matunga Road and Santacruz from 23.00 hrs to 04.00 hrs on the line at midnight.
According to the press release, all Up and Down fast trains will run slow between Mumbai Central, Churchgate, Andheri and Goregaon. The Railways resumed local train services for persons employed in emergency and essential services on June 15 and has recently allowed lawyers and foreign consulate staff to commute.
Whereas, Central Railway will operate special traffic and power block for the launching of five girders for six-metre wide Foot Over Bridge at Ambernath (Km 59/26A-28) railway station on Kalyan-Karjat section. The block will be operated on Up and Down lines from 10.55 am to 1.55 pm on Sunday (November 8).
On October 29, the railway authorities said only a little over 25 per cent of the normal number of commuters can be carried while following social distancing. In normal pre-COVID times, 80 lakh people travelled daily by Mumbai suburban local trains. The Central Railway in a letter to the state had said that it can ferry a maximum of 12.4 lakh of the 45 lakh passengers who travelled on its suburban network before the pandemic.
Due to the power block, the train running pattern will be as under:
Before the block
After the block