#Pilgrims
For the Pilgrims visiting Pandharpur and near by places... Good News for you...
For the convenience of the passenger, MSRTC introduced Darshan Bus which starts from Pandharpur every morning covers Siddheahwar Temple (Solapur), Swami Samarth Mandir (Akkalkot), Tuljabhavani Temple (Tuljapur) and return back on the same day to Pandharpur...
Passengers coming from Pune/Mumbai may directly come by 11027 Chennai Mail and...
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take this bus at Solapur Station itself.

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As Mumbaikar My Local, My Lifeline
Mumbai Suburban Railway consists of rapid transit on exclusive inner suburban railway lines augmented by commuter rail on main lines serving outlying suburbs to serve the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Spread over 465 kilometres (289 mi), the suburban railway operates 2,342 train services and carries more than 7.5 million commuters daily. By annual ridership (2.64 billion), the Mumbai Suburban Railway is the busiest rapid transit system in the world. It has some of the most severe overcrowding in the world. Trains run from 4 AM until...
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1 AM, and some trains also run up to 2:30 AM.
The Mumbai Suburban Railway system is operated by Indian Railways' two zonal divisions Western Railways (WR) and Central Railways (CR). The fast commuter rail corridors on Central Railway as well as Western Railway are shared with long distance and freight trains, while inner suburban services operate on exclusive parallel rapid transit tracks. WR operates the Western Line and CR operates the Central Line, Harbour Line, Trans-Harbour Line as well as the Vasai Road-Diva-Panvel line
The suburban services are run by electric multiple units (EMUs) in 191 rakes (train sets) of 9-car, 12-car and 15-car composition. To alleviate the problems of overcrowding, the 9 coach trains are being phased out and replaced with 12-coach trains. 15-coach trains were introduced on 21 November 2009. However, these are few in number.
The bulk of the current fleet of both the Western and Central railways features old rakes built by Jessop (Kolkata), ICF (Perambur) which are capable of a maximum speed of 85 km/h and MRVC Siemens Rakes which are capable of and 100 km/h under light traffic conditions. The actual average speed of the rakes on the slow lines is about 35 km/h, while rakes on fast lines average about 45–50 km/h on a typical run.
On 12 November 2007, the first of 129 new 12-coach rakes with upgraded facilities was inducted into the fleet of the Western Railways under the MUTP project. The coaches are built of stainless steel, and have non-cushioned seats, emergency fluorescent lights, bigger windows with polycarbonate panes, better suspension systems, roof mounted forced ventilation to reduce carbon dioxide levels in packed trains, and GPS based passenger information systems in all coaches. The new rakes are much more cool and airy than the old EMUs. The motors of the new rakes also make less noise than the older ones. Since 2010 the front of the EMUs are painted yellow, so that the maintenance workers on the tracks can see the train easily. These rakes have been procured under the project at a total cost of ₹ 19 billion (USD 431.0 million). Five Siemens rakes which had to be delivered as part of the first phase will be sent to the city starting early January 2014
New Bombardier rakes being built at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai were expected to start coming into Mumbai by April 2014 however a delay of two years is anticipated due to a demand of automatic sliding door on the trains.
Nine-car trains have a capacity of 2,628 (876 seated and 1,752 standing). Twelve-car trains have a capacity of 3,504 (1,168 seated and 2,336 standing).[10]
In fall 2013, brand new 12-car rakes were introduced on the railway
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