As the much-delayed monsoon arrived with a bang, Mumbai's suburban train services were left paralyzed. The Central Railway (CR) suspended suburban train services for over 16 hours as rain flooded tracks at several areas between Mumbai-Thane. The CR short terminated 54 long distance trains and 27 trains were cancelled on account of very heavy rains in Mumbai. The CSMT-Thane/Mankhurd ip and down regular traffic was restored at 4.30pm on Tuesday.Central line trains on Wednesday will ply as per Sunday timetable. Meanwhile, due to severe bunching of trains, passengers of the long-distance train were made to take buses from Surat for Mumbai.

Source: dna July 03, 2019 00:30 UTC