Type Suburban rail Stations 11 | Termini Nerul/CBD Belapur
Uran Opened 2018 expected | |
System Mumbai Suburban Railway Locale Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra | ||
CIDCO was appointed as a New Town Development Authority in the year 1970. Government acquired the land from 95 villages and handed over to CIDCO for development of towns. To de-congest the mother city, Mumbai, CIDCO developed 14 nodes in Navi Mumbai.The development of Navi Mumbai International Airport and 6 railway corridors in Navi Mumbai were ment for increasing connectivity between the towns, nodes and mega establishments.The major features of the rail corridor is direct access from residential to railway station by foot, convenient interchange facility from one corridor to another, double discharge platforms at every station, easy to follow routes and comfortable and pleasant journeys form the key features of the commuter railway system in Navi Mumbai. The proposed Nerul/ Belapur -Uran railway line will help to accelerate the growth of Navi Mumbai by providing direct access between Uran town, Jawaharlal Nehru Port, and the Newly developed areas of Mumbai. The Railway line will cater to the passenger traffic demands generated by Jawaharlal Nehru Port, port based industries, ONGC , Defence establishment at Uran and other residential, industrial, and ware-housing complexes in Uran taluka.
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Execution
The Nerul/Belapur-Uran Railway corridor is attached to the Mumbai CST-Panvel Harbour line (Mumbai Suburban Railway). The railway Project between Nerul and Belapur- Seawood-Uran was approved by Ministry of Railways and CIDCO Board. The work on the project began in July 1997. However, due to various unforeseen reasons, the work was delayed and hence stalled, until recently when the project was revived after the tripartite agreement between Railways, CIDCO and Govt. of Maharashtra was executed on 29.07.2011. It is an unique project involving CIDCO and Indian Railways , with CIDCO and railways sharing the expenditure on a ration of 67:33.The project was started in the year 1997 and the cost that time was Rs 495 crore. However, delays in the project have resulted in cost escalation up to Rs 1814.48 Crores.
Technical specifications
The total length of the corridor is 27 km and consists of 10 stations; 4 major bridges; 5 Road Over Bridges,15 Road under bridges, 1 track under bridge. The 270 mt platforms for four Broad gauge (B.G.) tracks to cater 12 car Electric multiple unit rakes with double discharge. The railway track structure shall comprise 60Kg/m I-class rails, laid on mono block prestressed concrete sleepers to 16660/Km sleeper density.The bridges will be built to Modified Broad gauge (MBG) standard of loading. Stone ballast 65mm gauge with ballast cushion of 300mm below the underside of sleepers will be provided.The 10 stations on the proposed railway line are Seawoods, Sagar Sangam, Targhar, Bamandongari, Kharkopar, Gavhan, Ranjanpada, Nava-Sheva, Dronagiri and Uran. Provisions are made for one arm of the railway line to go to CBD Belapur station from Sagarsangam station.The project is to be completed in two phases Nerul-Seawood to Kharkopar and Kharkopar to Uran. The deadline for the first phase of the project till Kharkopar is December 2017.