DC AC Conversion - Harbour Line

DC rake #307 awaiting departure to Panvel from Thane on one of its last few days in service (Akshay Marathe )

Siemens EMU under the newly energized AC Traction at Vashi Station on April 10, 2016 (Vijay Aravamudhan)

New Siemens EMU ready to take over from the retiring DC EMU, at CSTM, on April 10, 2016. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

WDS6 36290 attached to DC EMU, which would tow it dead to MTN yard, as traffic block had already commenced. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

(Vijay Aravamudhan)

Musical Band ready to welcome the last Special DC EMU of Central Railway, alonwith VIPs, GM etc, who were travelling in the coach which isn being videographed by the PRess persons. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

And last ever time, on April 10, 2016 at 12-28am, All the 3 pantographs of the DC 9car EMU were lowered one by one, PERMANENTLY. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

A Big band group and good amount of crowd of ppl, including press reporters, VIPs including GM, etc (Vijay Aravamudhan)

CLose up of decorated last DC EMU at SNPD Carshed. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

Last Special DC EMU decorated by Railfans. Now ready, sporting LED lighting. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

Battalion of railfans who were part of the rake decorations.
Upper L2R: Amit Phatak, Subash Gupta Sir (DRUCC member), Vibhav P, Rajendra Aklekar Sir, Yours Truly, Amol Nikam, Another railfan (name not remembered), Aryan.
Lower LtoR:Gururaj...

One last time, we get to see an AC Loco and DC EMU side by side,at Thane on April 9, 2016, a dy before the remaining sections of CR -Harbour and Trans Harbour lines would be converted into 25KV AC. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

Sad end of old DC EMU coaches - cutting in progress at Sanpada EMU Carshed of Central Railways. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

Sad end of old DC EMU coaches - cutting in progress at Sanpada EMU Carshed of Central Railways. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

76319 DC 9car Last Special EMU before decoration by railfans. This EMU was nicely spray painted and each coach decorated outside, and first class coaches decorated from inside, with old classic photos of DC EMUs. Seats were provided with seat numbers, exp

Picture showing the invasion of 25000V AC traction in Mumbai as on April 10, 2016. Certainly not to scale. Just tried to show the progress made by CR & WR in bringing 25KV AC traction into Mumbai, ruled by 1500V DC at present. Also, this image shows t

An (pure) DC EMU leaving PF# 4 of Vadala Road towards CSTM (asHIsh)

Side profile of a DC EMU leaving for CSTM, a sight which has become a history (asHIsh)

The last EMU (11:27PM) service to Panvel before DC-AC conversion block was to commence, waiting for starter at Kurla (Harbour). One more service left before the block started, but it was upto Vashi (asHIsh)

Decorated rake of the Kurla-CSTM special service arrives from Sanpada car shed, at Kurla (asHIsh)

Decorated interiors of the rake. How I wish this special last DC service carried super dense crush load! (asHIsh)

A passenger expressing his feelings, to be telecast on NEWS Nation channel (asHIsh)

The operating cab of the special service, the person farthest is the motorman (regret the bad quality of picture) (asHIsh)

A big crowd awaited the arrival of special rake at CSTM (asHIsh)

Arrangement was made at foyer of CSTM to telecast the conversion, live. Reminded me of the live telecast of satellite launch by ISRO (asHIsh)

Live feeds from 4 cameras were projected (asHIsh)

The two pictures at the top show two views from the control room. The white board on the glass wall shows the schematic of the power feeds. The computer monitor shows the screen of SCADA software. The panel in front of the officer wearing violet shirt, is