Central Railway
LESS FREQUENCY IN LOCAL TRAINS & COMPLAINT AGAINST NEWLY ADDED 12COACH TRAINS

Daily we are traveling fr BADLAPUR to DADAR/CST. We hereby want to raise an attention for following points: -

1. For KHOPOLI/KARJAT/BADLAPUR route train frequency is very much poor as compared to commuters rush. Frequency of other trains like THANE/DOMBIVLI/KALYAN has been increased over the years; but since many years LONG DISTANCE trains (KHOPOLI/KARJAT/BADLAPUR) which carries huge crowds has less frequency. We actually need trains at least for every 15minutes. Increase no. of trains in morning hrs towards up-side-CST and in evening towards down-side - KARJAT.

Commuters from other stations mostly travel by these long distance trains; since these are fast and KALYAN ot THANA trains are mostly slow or semi-fast. Because of the other people rush, the long-distance public like us cannot get in trains easily. In western railway, train frequency is every 3minutes on both fast as well as slow tracks. But the same is no where observed in central railway. Also there are 2ladies special train running from Borivli and Virar in western railway; but in central there is only 1ladies special from kalyan; which is of no use for commuters beyond KALYAN; where there is the maximum rush.

2. We Ladies Commuters also want to complain against the newly added 12coach trains in railways

a) These are very much un-comfortable and insecure to travel.

b) These trains had very less space at the seating arrangements.

c) The door rod is made of very smooth finishing metal which doesn’t give a grip while getting into train also we can’t take other support since the door’s doesn’t have a handle.

d) In middle ladies compartment, whole third door space is been transferred to handicapped ones. Kindly note that there are only 3 compartments for ladies commuters, in that also some space is been shared by other public, how can we travel? Why can’t space from general compartment be used; which has almost 9 compartments to travel.

e) In the old trains, we used to stand in 2 lines though we don’t have seats. But in these new trains, we can’t stand properly in 1 line also.

This design is not at all feasible & suitable for Indian Conditions.

PLEASE STOP RUNNING THESE NEWLY ADDED 12COACH TRAINS ON LONG DISTANCE. INSTEAD RUN THOSE ON SHORT DISTANCE LIKE DOMBIVALI/THANA/GHATKOPAR/KURLA.

Hope our concern will be considered by Mumbai Central Sub-urban Railway.

thanks & regards,

anjali