The Salsette–Trombay Railway (also known as the Central Salsette Tramway) was a
standard-gauge railway line on the island of
Salsette in the city of
Mumbai
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(Bombay),
India
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. The line was opened in 1928 by the
Great Indian Peninsular Railway under the
Bombay Improvement Trust which called for ''"the opening up of a Railway line running West to South-east and linking up the Andheri and Kurla stations'' to ''render available for building purposes vast tracts of land sufficiently close to the city."''
Hence, the line linked
Andheri in the north with the village of
Trombay
Trombay is an eastern suburb in Bombay (Mumbai), India
India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populou ...
in the east. The rail line was about 13 km long. During weekends, the line was frequented by picnickers who used to travel to Trombay to buy
toddy
Toddy may refer to:
Places
* Toddy Bridge, a pedestrian bridge in Singapore
* Toddy Pond, a pond in Antarctica
* Todmorden, a town in Yorkshire, England, informally called Toddy
People
* Ralph "Toddy" Giannini (1917–1996), American basketb ...
or palm liquor.
In 1934, the line was shut to make way for the
Santacruz Airport.
Route
The line began on the Island of Trombay and headed west with halts at
Wadavali and
Mahul Road
Mahul Road was a station on the Salsette–Trombay Railway in the Mahul region of Trombay in north-east Mumbai (Bombay), India. It was dismantled after the rail line closed in 1934. The tracks still are lying unused at the eastern side of the ...
up to
Kurla
Kurla (Pronunciation: uɾlaː is a neighbourhood of East Mumbai, India. It is the headquarters of the Kurla taluka of Mumbai Suburban district. The neighbourhood is named after the eponymous East Indian village that it grew out of. It falls u ...
Jn, where it crossed the main GIPR line. The line continued North-West along what is now S. G. Barve Road to pass under the Old Agra road bridge (now A. H. Wadia Road) to
Agra Road station. From here the line headed West along the present C. S. T. Road towards Santacruz with halts at
Kolovery and
Kole-Kalyan and finally turned north towards Andheri with halts at
Sahar and
Chakala stations. It station was at chakala now new hotel at subha zircon .
Equipment
The line operated eight steam engines built in
Britain by
W. G. Bagnall in 1921 and delivered new to the Salsette Trombay Railway.
Most of the locomotives used were returned to Britain after the line was shut.
See also
*
Mumbai Suburban Railway
*
Andheri railway station
*
Line 1 (Mumbai Metro)
References
External links
Locomotive No. 2178 used on the Railway photographed in England in 1972
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Rail transport in Mumbai
Railway lines opened in 1928
Railway lines closed in 1934