Mumbai’s air-conditioned (AC) local trains commuters on Western Railways (WR) faced inconvenience after a major technical glitch occurred on Thursday afternoon, July 28.
According to reports, the automatic doors of the Virar-bound AC local train of three coaches did not open at eight key stations.
The train was operating between Churchgate and Virar. However, door of the train did not open at Andheri, Borivali, Dahisar, Mira Road, Bhayandar, Naigaon, Nalasopara and Virar railway stations.
It has come to light that later the railway authorities manually opened the doors for passengers to board and deboard from the AC local train compartment.
The train halted at Borivali railway station at 3.39 pm and was held up till 3.47 pm to inspect why the doors did not open. At other stations, the doors of the three compartments were opened manually by railway personnel.
Owing to this, the train was delayed by a total of 10 minutes till it reached the Virar railway station.
Official further stated that the system override was given at Borivali but was not successful and then the batteries of the electronic systems were reset at Virar, following which the train started functioning normally.
The zonal railway has launched an enquiry into the incident and will be taking steps to prevent such incidents in future. Meanwhile, a detailed analysis is also being done. It looks like a problem in the sensors and control card of the local train, official added. The train was later moved to Mumbai Central car shed.
If reports are to believed, a similar incident occurred on July 12 on the Central Railway door of the compartment of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) bound Kalyan AC local and did not open at Dadar railway station and passengers had to de-board at Byculla railway station. Central Railways (CR) has also initiated a probe into the incident.
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