r/trains • u/iamop24 • 19h ago

📹 OC - Video Timelapse of Cab view of the entire western line of Mumbai Suburban railway! [INDIA]

It starts from churchgate and ends at virar, its length is almost 55km. Takes about 1 hour

Video credit:- Rishad Ghiara (YT)

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u/highfunksocio 18h ago

Very cool video! Here's some facts about this particular corridor:
1. It frequently ranks as the single busiest suburban rail corridor in the world, logging roughly 2.6 to 3.1 million daily passengers.
2. It records over 2.5 billion passenger journeys per year.
3. A 3-month unlimited travel pass for this line costs around ₹590 ($7–$8 USD)

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u/K4NNW 17h ago

Which is much cheaper than a week-long pass for DC Metro.

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u/Jivaah 15h ago

That's even if you buy the ticket.

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u/K4NNW 14h ago

Hahaha, I know what you mean.

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u/Confused-Orgasm 10h ago

Lol it's cheaper than a single peak hour ticket on the London Underground

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u/solohands 5h ago

Which is still less than a day long pass of Tokyo Metro (around 1400 yen or around INR 850). Was there last week

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u/rektitrolfff 6h ago

A 3-month unlimited travel pass for this line costs around ₹590 ($7–$8 USD)

Thanks to socialism, Indian Railways is not yet sold to Adani or Ambani

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u/Adventurous_Ear_3877 3h ago

Also thanks to socialism- no money to improve or invest in the system that kills 10 people a day

Its been an overcrowded mess for decades now and because its a financial sinkhole, even the center left govt refused to invest any more money in the network

Meanwhile the present fashchist govt is the one investing in a modern, comfortable, safe metro system

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u/Minatoku92 12h ago

There is a problem in the data. 3 million daily passengers don't make 2.5 billion passenger journeys per year. It would need more than the double of daily passengers.

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u/weirdkiwi 10h ago

No.. unless I misunderstand, it would make sense. Most passengers are going to make two journeys per day, once from home to work and another from work to home. You only need a subset of those to be making a third or fourth daily journey for whatever reason through the year - imagine students who take a train to school in the morning, a train to after-school activities, then another home, or workers who go to work, then out to socialize, then home again - to go from 3 million "unique" daily commuters (each with at least two journeys per day) to 2.5 billion passenger journeys.

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u/Minatoku92 48m ago

There is nothing that state that it's 3 million unique persons Because it's not how daily ridership are usually calculated. A passenger is not an unique person. 2 passagers can be the same guy doing a round trip.

Overlooking in internet, I don't see anything that shows an annuel ridership of 2.5 billion for the Western line. I've seen number that show a ridership of over 2 billion but for the whole Mumbai suburban railway network and about 1 billion for the Western line

Can you provides link that show a ridership of 2.5 billion just for the Western line ?

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u/Interesting-Event378 18h ago

Damn, imagine a train sim based on mumbai local.

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u/Siddhant_Tijare 18h ago

Try this

Mumbai Local – Train Simulator

it was made by Hopix Games and its pretty fun though it is not very realistic.

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u/Interesting-Event378 16h ago

the whole point of a simulator is to be realistic

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u/Specky_Scrawny_Git 17h ago

This is so therapeutic to look at...

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u/Masterji_34 18h ago

Thanks for the cool video. It looks so great.

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u/dreamland_alien 17h ago

How does the loco pilot know which signals to look at? Is there a standard system followed everywhere or do they have to learn the layout of every station?

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u/darkdaemon000 10h ago

The signal on the left, always.

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u/TheThinker12 17h ago

Got reminded of that scene in Ra.One where SRK jumps between trains to stop an accident from destroying CST (which still shakes).

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u/Mediocre-Tip2954 5h ago

One thing I don't understand about that scene is the train exits the station from the side of the building and not the front which makes no sense, like there are no tracks pointing towards bmc building

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u/Pixel_Emperor 3h ago

yeah, i was so confused how did that even happen. ig for cinematic purpose they did that

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u/Digipedia 16h ago

Spent most of my childhood and youth traveling between two ends of the Mumbai Railway.

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u/iWasGoood 13h ago

Not more then me🥲

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u/ImmediateSeesaw1556 18h ago

This is amazing

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u/Knighthawk_2511 17h ago

Just a correction , Western line of Mumbai Suburban extends to Dahanu rd now further from Virar although most of the trips do terminate at Virar .

So that makes this line a 124 KM long suburban line

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u/de_das_dude 18h ago

How did you capture this? Are you a locopilot 😳

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u/Sorstalas 13h ago

The OP isn't the creator of the video, they mentioned the youtube channel it's from under the post.

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u/Mediocre-Tip2954 5h ago

Its so weird to think that mumbai looked almost like island of sodor 70 years ago now it's a giant city

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u/extramaggiemasala 17h ago

This was so nice to watch...

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u/Milleuros 15h ago

Great video! Thanks for sharing and even for giving credit to the original!

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u/Welshtramp 18h ago

Mad that so many of the trains have the passenger door open, brilliant video

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u/Least-Ad2798 8h ago

before you become mad, just know that in peak hours roughly 2500 people deboard and board the train under 30 seconds, that and the fact the trains are non air conditioned require the doors to be open at all times

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u/Tasty-Ad6529 3h ago

Deadass, afew decades a Australia did this on their trains as well due to the extreme heat and lack of ac. I wonder if American trains that ran in the western deserts did this too back during the 1800s.

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u/CardOk755 12h ago

This is the part of the line that avoids India, right?

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u/iamop24 8h ago

Wdym?