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Lower Parel railway station

Coordinates: 18°59′43″N 72°49′48″E / 18.99528°N 72.83000°E / 18.99528; 72.83000
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Lower Parel
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Mumbai Suburban Railway station
General information
Coordinates18°59′43″N 72°49′48″E / 18.99528°N 72.83000°E / 18.99528; 72.83000
Owned byMinistry of Railways, Indian Railways
Line(s)Western Line
Platforms03
Tracks05
Construction
Structure typeStandard on-ground station
Other information
Fare zoneWestern Railways
History
Opened1867[citation needed]
ElectrifiedYes
Services
Preceding station  
MSR
  Following station
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Location
Lower Parel is located in Mumbai
Lower Parel
Lower Parel
Location within Mumbai

Lower Parel railway station is a railway station on the Western Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway, India. The next station south is Mahalaxmi railway station; the next station north is Elphinstone Road.

Lower Parel railway station have 3 platforms. From platform no.1, slow local trains goes towards Dadar-Bandra-Andheri-Borivali -Virar, from platform no.2 slow local trains goes towards Mumbai Central-Churchgate, and Platform No.3 is kept as reserve that can be used in emergency and during mega-block on Sundays.

As Lower Parel has become a corporate hub, thousands of people come here in morning for work which make Lower Parel railway station one of the most crowded local stations of Mumbai.

It will have a connection to phase II of the Mumbai Monorail,[1] due to open in 2015.

Lower Parel platformboard

Notes and references

  1. ^ "L&T consortium bags Mumbai monorail project". The Hindu. 11 November 2008.