Turbhe railway station
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Turbhe railway station is on the
Harbour Line The Harbour line is a branch line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway operated by Central Railway. It was named so because it catered to the eastern neighbourhoods along the city's natural harbour. Its termini are Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Termin ...
of the
Mumbai Suburban Railway The Mumbai Suburban Railway ( Marathi: मुंबई उपनगरीय रेल्वे) (colloquially called local trains or simply locals) consists of exclusive inner suburban railway lines augmented by commuter rail on main lines ser ...
network near
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, Maharashtra, India. It is a junction station and is located in the node of
Turbhe Turbhe is suburb of Navi Mumbai. Turbhe Suburb is known for the presence of Wholesale Agriculture Market also Known as Mumbai-APMC MarkeTurbhe. which attracts sellers from Maharashtra & Gujrat. Turbhe is aligned with Sion-Panvel highway & Tha ...
. The station is accessible from the
Thane–Belapur road Thane–Belapur Road is a major road connecting the city of Thane with Navi Mumbai. The southern end of Thane–Belapur Road starts at the Sion Panvel Highway near Juinagar. The road passes through a busy Thane – Belapur region and generally ...
on the eastern side and the
NMMT Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport (NMMT) is the transport wing of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation, which operates bus services in Navi Mumbai Navi Mumbai (), is a planned city situated on the west coast of the Indian subcontinent, loca ...
depot on the western side. Turbhe is the fifth railway station on the Thane-Turbhe-Vashi/Nerul Rail Corridor, a 23-km-long corridor connecting
Thane Thane (; also known as Thana, the official name until 1996) is a metropolitan city in Maharashtra, India. It is situated in the north-eastern portion of the Salsette Island. Thane city is entirely within Thane taluka, one of the seven taluk ...
with
Navi Mumbai Navi Mumbai (), is a planned city situated on the west coast of the Indian subcontinent, located in the Konkan division of Maharashtra state, on the mainland of India. Navi Mumbai is part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). The city i ...
. It is at a distance of 15 km from
Thane railway station Thane (formerly Thana, station code: TNA) is an A1 category major railway station of the Indian Railways serving the city of Thane, Located in Maharashtra, it is one of the busiest railway stations in India. , Thane railway station handles 26 ...
and 3 km from
Vashi railway station Vashi is a railway station on the Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. Vashi railway station is the terminal point for CST and Thane Trains. Around 75,000 people travel from Vashi to Mumbai CST, and around 32 thousand peo ...
. The station has been designed by
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. Like other stations on this corridor, Turbhe has double discharge facilities on all tracks with a width of 12 m for island platforms and 8 m for end platforms. The station occupies an area of 15,000 square metres and has a parking capacity for 175 cars and 250 motorcycles. As of 2005, there were twelve services a day on this rail line in either direction. Currently, there are 88 services on either side from Vashi and Thane.


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