 Lower Parel | |||||||||||
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| Mumbai Suburban Railway station | |||||||||||
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| General information | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 18°59′43″N 72°49′48″E / 18.99528°N 72.83000°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Ministry of Railways, Indian Railways | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Western Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 3 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 5 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Standard on-ground station | ||||||||||
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| Station code | PL | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | Western Railways | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1867 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Location | |||||||||||
  Lower Parel Location within Mumbai | |||||||||||
Lower Parel (Pronunciation: [pəɾəɭ], [pəɾeːl]; station code: PL) railway station is a railway station on the Western Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway, India. The next station south is Mahalaxmi railway station; the next station north is Prabhadevi.
Lower Parel railway station has three platforms. From platform no.1, slow local trains go towards Dadar-Bandra-Andheri-Borivali -Virar, from platform no.2, slow local trains go towards Mumbai Central-Churchgate, and Platform No.3 is kept as a reserve that can be used in emergency and during mega-block on Sundays.
As Lower Parel has become a corporate hub, thousands of people use the railway station daily, which makes the Lower Parel railway station one of the most crowded local railway stations in Mumbai.
It has a connection to phase II of the Mumbai Monorail,[1] opened in 2019.
The Delisle Bridge, which connects to Lower Parel, was shut to traffic in 2018 and reopened in November 2023 after pandemic-caused delays.[2]
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ "Mumbai Monorail Phase 2 inaugurated: India's 1st monorail network fully operational – Fare, route, frequency". Times Now. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ↑ Baliga, Linah (23 November 2023). "After being shut for 5 years, Delisle Bridge to open fully today". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 23 November 2023.