subject: Traveling In Trains In Mumbai - While Away Delays Through Shopping [print this page] Mumbai a City where 20 million people draw breath, dream a better future, travel for their day-to-day action. Trains in Mumbai play a very big role to run this commercial capital of India. Originally built by the British, the democratic India took over the maintenance and expansion of the Mumbai train in 1947. Victoria terminus now know as Mumbai CST is the main station in Mumbai for the central and harbor lines, while churchgate is main station of the Western line. There are only three lines in Mumbai. Central, Harbor and Western lines, each of them travels at least about 60 to 100 kilometers in one direction.
Crowd
Traveling in Mumbai train is a challenge for a western tourist. The trains are always full; one would be lucky to easily find a place even in the last train at night. The train doors are always open and people are dangerously hanging on to the doors, either enjoying fresh air in otherwise a highly congested place or having no other option since the train is so full that no one can move anymore inside the train. If you are not traveling end-to-end destinations of the train route getting inside or outside the train could as well be life threatening. One should as well take care of their valuables since there are often thefts taking place in crowded trains.
Commerce
It causes amazement to see that even in the crowded train you can see transactions taking place. There are people trying to sell all kinds of things fruits, books, combs, toys, magazines & newspapers etc in the moving train. There are as well people begging in the train and I must say that Indians are charitable people often helping the blind and handicap beggars on the train.
Cost
The train in Mumbai is built thinking of common man. Around eighty percent of Mumbais population moves with the help of trains. The ticket price of second-class compartment is very cheap as compared to western standards. The prices of first-class compartment are significantly higher than the second-class compartment. One would be wrong to think about getting a place to sit in first class due to its cost, sometimes first class are more crowded than second class due to less compartments allocated to it.
Delays
There are often delays taking place, especially in the monsoon season. Heavy monsoon rain cause the water to be amassed on the tracks due to which the trains are often not working for days or hours in monsoon season.
by: Farhan Syed
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