Port line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway is a railway line serving between

CBD Belapur The Central Business District of Belapur (C.B.D Belapur) is a large upmarket neighbourhood of Navi Mumbai. The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation is headquartered in Belapur. Nature Belapur is surrounded by greenery and it is much more organi ...

and

Nerul Nerul (Pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, eɾuːɭ is a residential and commercial node in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Nerul is located in the Harbour line (Mumbai Suburban Railway), Harbour Line, Trans-Harbour line (Mumbai Suburban R ...

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with

Uran Uran is a coastal town in Raigad District's Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra state in Konkan division. It lies to the east of Mumbai across the Dharamtar Creek. Uran is primarily a fishing and agriculture village, which has developed into the spec ...

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, which is attached to the Harbour line. It was inaugurated on 11 November 2018. Daily services started on 12 November 2018. This railway line will help to accelerate the growth of Navi Mumbai, Jawaharlal Nehru Port and the Newly developed areas of Mumbai And also will cater to the passenger traffic demands generated by

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, port-based industries,

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, the Defence establishment and other residential, industrial, and warehousing complexes in

Technical specifications

The total length of the corridor is and consists of ten stations; four major bridges; five roads over bridges, 15 roads under bridges, one track under bridge. The platforms for two Broad gauge (BG) tracks to cater 12-car

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rakes with double discharge. The railway track structure shall comprise I-class rails laid on monoblock prestressed concrete sleepers to sleeper density. The bridges will be built to the Modified

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(MBG) standard of loading. Stone ballast gauge with ballast cushion of below the underside of sleepers will be provided and also provisions are made for one branch of the railway line to go to

. Currently, 4 EMU rakes ply on this line. This railway line project is divided into two phases : * Phase I starts from Nerul and CBD Belapur to Kharkopar with stations are Seawoods Darave, Sagar Sangam, Targhar, Bamandongri and Kharkopar. * Phase II starts from Kharkopar to Uran with stations are Gavhan, Shematikhar, Nhava Sheva and Dronagiri.

Status

* In Phase I, Bamandongri and Kharkopar are fully operational and Targhar railway station is still under construction. But the construction of Sagar Sangam railway station is temporarily postponed due to completing the railway line within the time limit of October 2018 till the later phase. * In Phase II, the Construction of all stations lying between Kharkopar and Uran was completed except Gavan railway station and flagged of by PM

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on 12 January 2024.

History

The City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra (CIDCO) was appointed as a New Town Development Authority in 1970. The government acquired land from 95 villages and handed it over to CIDCO for the development of towns. To decongest the mother city, Mumbai, CIDCO developed 14 nodes in

. The development of

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and six railway corridors in Navi Mumbai were meant to increase connectivity between the towns, nodes and mega establishments. The major features of the rail corridor are direct access from residential areas to the railway stations by foot, convenient interchange facility from one corridor to another, double discharge platforms at every station, easy-to-follow routes and comfortable and pleasant journeys from the key features of the commuter railway system in Navi Mumbai. For that purpose, The railway Project between Belapur and Nerul-Seawood-Uran was approved by Ministry of Railways and the CIDCO Board. The work on the project began in July 1997. However, due to various unforeseen reasons, the work was delayed and hence stalled, until recently when the project was revived after the tripartite agreement between Railways,

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and Govt. of Maharashtra was executed on 29 July 2011. The original estimated cost for the project was in 1997, which escalated to 1,782 crore. The cost is shared by CIDCO and the Indian Railways, 67:33. Construction of Phase I on this route began in the first week of March 2017. After completion of Phase I, it was commissioned by CRS on 1 November 2018 and after, was inaugurated on 11 November 2018 through video conferencing by Railway Minister

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and Chief Minister of Maharashtra

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. More than 3,000 tickets were sold, with earnings of during inauguration day of Phase I.

Stations

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