12 January,2024 04:41 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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The Western Railway's Mumbai division on Friday while sharing Mumbai local train updates said that it will operate a jumbo block between Santacruz and Goregaon on Sunday.
An official statement issued by the Western Railway said that to carry out maintenance work of tracks, signaling and overhead equipment, a jumbo block of five hours will be taken on up and down fast lines between Santacruz and Goregaon station from 10.00 hrs to 15.00 hrs on Sunday, 14th January, 2024.
According to a press release issued by Sumit Thakur - Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, during the block period, all up and down fast line trains will be operated on slow lines between Santacruz and Goregaon station.
It said, some of the Borivali and Andheri trains will run upto Goregaon station on harbor line.
Some suburban trains will remain cancelled during the block. Detailed information to this effect is available with concerned station masters, the Western Railway said.
Meanwhile, in an another statement, Western Railway on Monday said that it conducted massive ticket checking drives from April to December 2023 and was successful in collecting Rs 128 crore as fines.
In an official statement, the Western Railway said that 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 over the Mumbai suburban local services, Mail/Express as well as passenger trains and holiday special trains to curb the menace of ticketless/irregular passengers.
The Western Railway said, "The ticket checking staff worked with full zeal the team under the supervision of senior commercial officers of Western Railway organised several ticket checking drives during the months from April to December 2023. During the drives, a recovery of Rs 128.42 crore was made. The fines also include Rs 33.60 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 December, 2023, Rs. 12.71 crore was recovered through detection of 2.24 lakh ticketless/irregular passengers, including unbooked luggage cases. Also, in the month of December, Western Railway realised fines amounting to Rs. 3.54 crore through detection of about 91,000 cases over Mumbai suburban section. To prevent unauthorised entry in Mumbai AC local trains, frequent surprise ticket checking drives are carried out. As a result of these drives more than 46,000 unauthorised passengers have been penalised during the period April to December 2023 and Rs 154.67 lakh collected in fines, which is about 50 per cent higher than the same period of last year.
Western Railway appeals to the general public to travel with proper and valid tickets, the Western Railway said in a statement.
