Vasai Road railway station

Vasai Road Junction
Indian Railways and Mumbai Suburban Railway station
General information
LocationVasai
Coordinates19°22′57″N 72°49′56″E / 19.38238°N 72.83216°E / 19.38238; 72.83216
Owned byMinistry of Railways, Indian Railways
Line(s)Western line
Central line
Vasai Road–Roha line
Platforms8(7+1A)
Tracks9
Construction
Structure typeStandard on-ground station
ParkingYes
Bicycle facilitiesYes
Other information
StatusActive
Station codeBSR
BS (local)
Fare zoneWestern Railways
History
Openedin or before 1864
ElectrifiedYes
Services
Preceding station Mumbai Suburban Railway Following station
Naigaon
towards Churchgate
Western line Nallasopara
towards Dahanu Road
Terminus Vasai Road–Roha line Juchandra
towards Roha
Location
Vasai Road is located in Maharashtra
Vasai Road
Vasai Road
Location within Maharashtra

Vasai Road Junction (station code: BSR) is a railway station on the Western line and Vasai Road–Roha line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.

Vasai is a historical suburban town north of Mumbai and it is located in Palghar district. It is a much modern part of Vasai Taluka. It is a part of the new Vasai-Virar city.

It is a major railway station which bypasses Mumbai and connects the trains coming from Vadodara to Konkan Railway and Pune Junction railway station and further towards cities of Bengaluru and Hyderabad

History

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The station was formerly known as Bassein Road (Bassein being Vasai's Portuguese name). This is the reason why the station code is BSR standing for the original BaSsein Rd.

It was a station on the erstwhile BB&CI railway's (today's Western Railway) first passenger train service between Grant Rd and Ahmedabad, when it commenced operations on 28 November 1864. It was also the northern terminus of the first local service of the BB&CI railway, when it started two coach services between Grant Rd and Bassein Rd on 1 November 1865.[1] The service had one train plying each direction. Just the following month, in an effort to construct a second platform with roof at the station, Rs. 6,522 were sanctioned in December 1865. This was necessary, since it was often, that two passenger train happened to be at the station at the same time. Wells were provided at Bassein Rd, along with a station called Pahadee (today's Goregaon station).[2]

Station layout

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Seven of the eight platforms at Vasai Road are laid out side by side. Platform 1 at Vasai Road is constructed approximately 500 meters south of platform 2, similar to platform 2 and 3 at Borivali.

Vasai Road is an important cross over point between Western and Central railways in Mumbai, as trains from Konkan region and Pune cross over to the Western line here.

Platforms 2–5 handle the local trains in the up & down directions. Platforms 4,5,6 and 7 handle outstation trains that halt at Vasai Road. They also handle two Rajdhani Express trains.

1. 12431/12432 Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani Express

2. 22413/22414 Madgaon Rajdhani Express

Besides this, the station also handles Humsafar Express, Duronto Express, Sampark Kranti Express trains from Kerala side towards Delhi.

Platform 1 is dedicated to handle local trains that start/terminate at Vasai Road. Platforms 6 and 7 hold freight trains going towards Diva. Recent developments at Vasai railway station are the inclusion of elevator and lifts, on the old as well as the new footover bridges. Currently, Western Railway is planning to build a new outstation train terminus. The new terminus, set to come up by 2023, will also ease the present bottleneck at Vasai Road station. The project plan received a boost when Union railway minister Piyush Goyal on August 23, 2018 announced exploring the feasibility of a new main line terminal at Vasai Road.

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References

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  1. ^ "Western Railways completes 150 years". Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  2. ^ Rahul Mehrotra, Sharada Dwivedi (2000). Anchoring A City Line. Eminence Designs Pvt. Ltd. p. 25. ISBN 81-900602-4-4.