In a significant development, the Mumbai Division of Central Railway’s trans-harbour line has decided to add a railway station on the Thane-Panvel route.
According to an official statement released by the Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC), a new station, Digha, will be a part of this route from January 2023.
The new station will come after Airoli and will also be a part of the proposed Airoli-Kalwa elevated suburban corridor on the Central Railway line.
Sharing the details, official, which is implementing Airoli-Kalwa suburban corridor, further stated that the station is almost ready and only work of platform shelter, subway, bridge, drainage construction is in the last stages which should be completed by December this year.
The MRVC official said that for this corridor, 2.55 hectares of land will be required of which 0.47 ha is private land and the rest, government land. While the government land parcel has been acquired by MRVC, the private land is in an advanced stage of acquisition, the official added.
However, it has come to light that the MRVC is waiting for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to hand over land for the new suburban corridor link between Airoli and Kalwa.
The Airoli Kalwa elevated new suburban corridor is proposed to be completed in three years once the R&R and land acquisition is done, said the official. The new corridor has been proposed so that commuters of Central Railway catching trains from Badlapur, Kalyan, or Dombivli do not have to change trains from Thane station which is the terminus for trans harbour railway line.
Currently, those travelling from the down direction on the Central Railway line and wanting to travel on the trans harbour route have to get off at Thane station. With the commissioning of the Airoli-Kalwa elevated corridor, commuters will be able to directly travel to the trans harbour line without changing local trains at Thane.
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