Maharashtra: Level crossing near Saphale station to remain closed for public till Feb 10, says Western Railway

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A level crossing near Saphale station in Maharashtra will temporarily remain closed for public due to Infrastructural works, the Western Railway said on Wednesday.

According to the Western Railway, infrastructural works such as track laying, etc. on up and down line in the level crossing area has been planned at level crossing no. 42 near Saphale station. Due to this, the level crossing no. 42 in the Saphale station yard will remain closed for public.

According to a press release issued by Sumit Thakur, Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, level Crossing no. 42 in Saphale station yard will remain closed till 23.00 hrs of 10th February, 2024 for road users. Pedestrians may use the railway FOB connecting East to West and vehicular traffic may use the nearby Kapase Road Over Bridge (ROB) near Saphale as an alternate route for level crossing no. 42.

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"Inconvenience caused is highly regretted by WR," the western Railway said.

Meanwhile, in an another statement, the Western Railway said, in order to ensure hassle-free, comfortable travel and better services to all bonafide passengers over Western Railway, intensive ticket checking drives are being carried out continuously over Mumbai suburban local services, mail/express as well as passenger trains and holiday special trains so as to curb the menace of ticketless/irregular passengers. The highly motivated ticket checking team under the supervision of senior commercial officers of Western Railway organized several ticket checking drives during the period from April 2023 to January, 2024, thereby recovering an amount to the tune of Rs. 141.50 crore, which also includes Rs. 37.55 Crore from Mumbai Suburban section.

According to a press release issued by Sumit Thakur - Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, during the month of January, 2024, an amount of Rs.13.07 crore was recovered through detection of 2.28 lakh ticketless/irregular passengers, including unbooked luggage cases. Also in the month of January, WR realised fines amounting to almost Rs. 4 Crore through detection of about 94 thousand cases over Mumbai Suburban section. To prevent unauthorized entry in AC local trains, frequent surprise Ticket Checking drives are carried out. As a result of these drives more than 51,000 unauthorised passengers have been penalized during the period April, 2023 to January, 2024 and Rs. 170.74 lakh collected in fines, which is about 38 per cent higher than the same period of last year.