Mumbai, August 19: Railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav may have given Mumbai’s travelling woes a miss on Thursday. But had he been at Dombivali station, all his peoples’ skills would have come to naught.
Angry commuters demanded that Central Railways provide more trains and better efficiency. Their protests created mayhem all through Thursday morning. They stalled CST-bound trains, beat up railway personnel, braved police batons and destroyed train timetables for Thursday.
CR Traffic Inspector R K Meena, a pointsman and another railway constable were beaten up. All three were admitted to a Titwala hospital. Senior Railway Protection Force (RPF) officials, railway police personnel spent all of Friday morning making trips between CST and Byculla to the affected stations. Nearly all trains were aborted at Thane and serpentine queues of people traversing the distance beyond Thane by the side of railway tracks was noticed.
Central Railways, officials said, had parked five trains at Titawala late on Wednesday night to start running trains from there. However commuters wouldn’t have anything to do with CR’s helplessness in having just one line between Shahad and Ambivali to run trains both ways. This created bottleneck situations at several places which led to the outburst.
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