Inauguration of Thane-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus(Kurla) 5th 6th New Lines on April-10,2011

Seen here is the Remodelled layout of LTT lines joining the 5th 6th lines. This is facing Ghatkopar end, taken from the FOB at VVH station. The LTT UP n DN lines branchout from the 5th 6th lines. The rest of 5th 6th lines are terminated abruptly, as these

OHE Van working on the OHE for new lines, before opening them formally. (Deep Soni)

After removing old Track linkings and mapping LTT lines to new 5th 6th lines, the track equipments take some rest at Vidyavihar stn (Deep Soni)

The concrete trnout sleepers for linking the LTT lines into 3rd 4th lines, have now been removed and kept above the old alignment track. Seen here is WCAM3 with an exp train, in the morning time. (Deep Soni)

Prelude to Inauguration of Thane-LTT 5th 6th new lines - 4 empty rakes with 4 ACDC locos stabled and waiting at Mulund Goods yard sidings-WCAG-1 21971 with 0156 BSB-LTT holiday spl, WCAM-3 21942 with 12172 Haridwar-LTT AC Exp, WCAM-3 with Darbhanga-

Prelude to Thane-LTT 5th 6th lines Inauguration - Mulund freight yard was used as siding lines for 4 empty rakes. (Nikhil Karunakaran)

Effect of MegaBlock at VidyaVihar and LTT on April-10,2011 - All 5 sidings of Mulund Goods yard occupied. 2 empty rakes, A freighter, and then another 2 empty rakes. Focusing on left side of freighter (Harshad Joshi)

Effect of MegaBlock at VidyaVihar and LTT on April-10,2011 - All 5 sidings of Mulund Goods yard occupied. 2 empty rakes, A freighter, and then another 2 empty rakes. Focusing on right side of freighter (Harshad Joshi)

Prelude to LTT-Thane 5th 6th lines Inauguration - 1st train to go on pf 8 onwards to LTT - 13201 Rajendra Nagar-LTT languishing since long for clearance (Nikhil Karunakaran)

Prelude to Inauguration of LTT-TNA 5th 6th lines - Usual LTT-VSKP, but today (DR)-VSKP with offlink UBL WDG4 12126, speeds up at Thane outer. Also seen is a 9car DC EMU stabled at Thane siding. CR has officially announced that only 12car EMUs would ply on

Twin WDG4's with Palindromic Loco 12121 in lead, pulls the Boxn Rake from Vidyavihar Freight Yard to 3rd Main Line. Freight yard is still mapped to older 3rd 4th lines only. (Tushar Dhake)

Track Laying Machine and KYN WDG3A 13638 at VidyaVihar. Older alignment in focus, facing Thane end. (Tushar Dhake)

Here it is...KYN WCAM3 21961 being anxiously invited as 13201 Patna - LTT Express is the first train to enter LTT by the newly opened sixth line. Post inaugurating and garlanding the 1st train on 6th line, to LTT, the train was allowed to proceed. You can

KYN WCAM3 21961 with the 1st train - RajendraNagar-LTT exp arrives on 6th line and was made to wait at VidyaVihar outer or rather LTT outer, and Sr Rly officials broke coconut and garlanded this loco, and then was allowed to proceed into LTT. Lots of crow

And the Switch set for the 1st train from LTT towards Thane to roll on the 5th DN line. I just saw the switch moving with motors making sounds, and captured it. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

And The 1st train to roll on the new 5th line from LTT towards Thane arrives at the same outer, with loco WCAM3 21897 with the train - 11055 DN LTT-Gorakhpur Godaan Exp. Coconut was broken, and then the train allowed to proceed on the new line. Seen here

And Starter given to the 1st train 11055 LTT-Gorakhpur Godaan Exp to roll out on the 5th DN line from LTT till Thane. Seen here are Khalasi with green flag, some other workers, who had been toiling hard to make this commissioning a grand success, and also

CBE-LTT 11014 was detained for very long time at the LTT outer. This was the 2nd train to enter LTT on 6th line from Thane. (Nikhil Karunakaran)

Railfans waiting in anticipation to see the 1st train on 5th DN line. (Nikhil Karunakaran)

Finally - Godan is given fond farewell. Notice the rails cut off. These were the original alignment branching out from the old 3rd 4th lines to LTT. (Nikhil Karunakaran)

RAILFANS for the inauguration on 5th 6th lines at VVH - From Left to Right - Sriram S (TNA), Arzan Kotval(DR), Nikhil Karunakaran(DI), Tushar Dhake (KYN), Vijay Aravamudhan(TNA) and Deep Soni(VVH) (Tushar Dhake)

KYN WDG3 Baldie 14587 was the link for SNSI-DR exp. Taken at Vidyavihar after inauguration of Thane-LTT 5th 6th lines. (Vijay Aravamudhan)

16 year old dream comes true on Central Railway...
5th and 6th Lines between Lokmanya Tilak Terminus and Thane opened for Passenger Traffic today on 10th April 2011...
First Train on 6th Line towards LTT is 3201 UP Rajendra Nagar Patna - LTT...

First Train on 6th Line towards LTT is 13201 UP Rajendra Nagar Patna - LTT Mumbai Express with Kalyan WCAM3 # 21961 (Tushar Dhake)

11014 Coimbatore - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Mumbai Express with a WDP4 # 20031 is a second train coming on the 6th Line after the inauguration of 5th & 6th Lines on Central Railway today i.e. 10th April 2011 between LTT & Thane (Tushar Dhake)

First Train on 5th Line from LTT is 11055 DN LTT Mumbai - Gorakhpur Godan Express with Kalyan WCAM3 # 21897 (Tushar Dhake)

IN TRUE COLOURS !KYN WCAM-3# 21882 appears to pose for a profile, displaying it’s spectacular colours. Venue is near Ghatkopar station. (Arzan Kotval)