Vasai Road Junction (station code: BSR) is a railway station on the Western line and

Vasai Road–Roha line The Vasai Road–Roha line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway is a public transit system. It connects Northern suburbs of Mumbai with Navi Mumbai and Roha on Konkan Railway. The Vasai Road–Roha line connects the Western line station of Vasai Road w ...

of the

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network.

Vasai Vasai (Konkani and Marathi pronunciation: �əsəi formerly and alternatively Mahratti; ''Bajipur'', English: Bassein; Portuguese: Baçaim), is a historical place and City near Mumbai (Bombay)'s western suburbs, located in Palghar district w ...

is a historical suburban town north of

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and it is located in

Palghar district Palghar District (Marathi pronunciation: aːlɡʱəɾ is a district in the state of Maharashtra in Konkan Division. On 1 Aug 2014, the State government of Maharashtra announced the formation of the 36th district of Maharashtra Palghar, it was ...

. It is a much modern part of Vasai Taluka. It is a part of the new

Vasai-Virar Vasai-Virar is an agglomeration of four previously governed municipal councils i.e. Vasai, Virar, Nala Sopara, and Navghar-Manikpur and a few villages on the west as well as the east of the congested city area. It lies in the Konkan division o ...

city. It is a major railway station which bypasses Mumbai and connects the trains coming from

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Konkan Railway The Konkan Railway (abbreviated KR) is one of the 19 railway zones in India with its headquarters at CBD Belapur in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The first passenger train ran on Konkan railway tracks on 20 March 1993, between Udupi and ...

and

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and further towards cities of

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and

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Station layout

Seven of the eight platforms at Vasai Road are laid out side by side. Platform 1 at Vasai Road is constructed approximately 500 meters south of platform 2, similar to platform 8 at . Vasai Road is an important cross over point between Western and Central railways in Mumbai, as trains from Konkan region and Pune cross over to the Western line here. Platforms 2–5 handle the local trains in the up & down directions. Platform 6 and 7 handle outstation trains that have a halt at Vasai Road. They also handle two Rajdhani Express trains. 1. 12431/12432

Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani Express The 12431 / 12432 Hazrat Nizamuddin–Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani Express is a Rajdhani Express train service in India, connecting in the country capital New Delhi to , the capital of Kerala state. It is the longest-running Rajdhani Express t ...

2. 22413/22414

Madgaon Rajdhani Express The 22413/22414 ''Madgaon Rajdhani Express'' is an express train of Rajdhani class belonging to Indian Railways connecting the national capital New Delhi to Madgaon Margao or Madgaon is the commercial capital of the Indian state of Goa. It ...

Also, it handles

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trains from Kerala side towards Delhi. Platform 1 is a dedicated platform to handle local trains that start/terminate at Vasai Road. Also platform 6 and 7 holds freight train for going towards Diva. The recent developments at Vasai railway station is the inclusion of elevator and lifts on the old as well as the new footover bridges. Currently, The Western Railway is planning to build a new outstation train terminus. The new terminus, set to come up by 2023, will also ease the present bottleneck at Vasai Road station. The project plan received a boost when Union railway minister

Piyush Goyal Piyush Vedprakash Goyal (born 13 June 1964) is a politician, chartered accountant and cabinet minister of the Government of India having portfolios such as Minister of Textiles, Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of Consumer Affa ...

on August 23, 2018 announced exploring the feasibility of a new main line terminal at Vasai Road.

Gallery

File:Vasai Road platformboard.jpg, Vasai Road platform board File:WAG 9 at Vasai Road Station.jpg,

WAG-9 The Indian locomotive class WAG-9 is a class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives that was developed in 1995 by ABB Group (ABB) for Indian Railways. The model name stands for broad gauge (W), AC Current (A), Goods traffic (G), 9th generation (9) ...

at Vasai Road Station – Platform 6

References

Transport in Vasai-Virar Mumbai Suburban Railway stations Mumbai WR railway division Railway stations in Palghar district {{Maharashtra-railstation-stub