Lower Parel railway station
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Mumbai Suburban Railway station | |||||||||||
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Coordinates | 18°59′43″N 72°49′48″E / 18.99528°N 72.83000°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | Ministry of Railways, Indian Railways | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Western Line | ||||||||||
Platforms | 03 | ||||||||||
Tracks | 05 | ||||||||||
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Structure type | Standard on-ground station | ||||||||||
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Fare zone | Western Railways | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1867[citation needed] | ||||||||||
Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||
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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.
Notes and references
- ^ "L&T consortium bags Mumbai monorail project". The Hindu. 11 November 2008.