[Resolved]  Western Railway — Trains delayed

Address:

Thane, Maharashtra

I tried posting the same on web site under section Letters to the editors, but in vain, hence rewriting it here. These are the certain issues observed by me and some of the fellow commuters: Am the daily traveller to Mumbai by 6.25 DRD-BVI local train, Inspite of launching the complaint of local running late every single day there seems to no action taken on the same. The train is delayed everyday by taking it on siding track (either at Palghar or Kelve Rd) for atleast 20-25 mins for passing the Garib Rath exp. The amount time for which local is made halt on either of the stations can easily cover the distance till Virar without effective the speed of Garib Rath exp. To add more to it Local runs fast Between VR-BSR-BHY-BVI, hence should not affect the speed of other express trains/Garib Rath running behind it from VR onwards as well. Fail to understand the logic of such stupid reasons/methods used by railway control department to unnecessary delay the trains and harass the passengers in our region. The locals running in suburb (CCG-VR) are always been given first preference delayed the fewer trains that are available for the VR-DRD region to commute. 19143 down, lokshakti express is delayed every day for irrelevant reasons. In past when the scheduled time of the train was at 21.30 at palghar, it somehow use to manage to reach Plg stn atleast by 21.40, however ever since it is rescheduled to 21.20 (10 mins early) have never since it arriving at palghar station before 21.50. Whenever checked with the railway control department, it is always said the delay is due maintenance work that is carried out at Vaitarna bridge (which is being due since 2011, and have seen no one working on it), but it has never reached till the said bridge on time yet. It is always that the slow locals are made run ahead of the express trains till Virar which do not have any stoppage at the stations between VR-BVI. The locals running in suburbans (Between VR-CCG) are never taken on siding tracks/slow tracks for any of the trains running behind these locals, infact many a time slow local is made run ahead of fast/Express trains on fast tracks between VR-BVI, whereas when there are less trains been provided to our region still our trains are always delayed for more than 30 mins. The south end foot-over bridge (which is mostly used by commuters at Plg stn) of railway has been carried out for repair work just few days before the monsoon started and currently left unattended leading to no roof on bridge when it is most needed. The ceiling fans of newly introduced local in our region seems to rotating just for the sake of it, most of it rotating in reserve direction resulting the upward flow of the air i.e. towards train’s roof.