Lower Parel railway station

Lower Parel (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
Mumbai Suburban Railway station
Coordinates18°59′43″N 72°49′48″E
Owned byMinistry of Railways, Indian Railways
Line(s)Western Line
Platforms3
Tracks5
Construction
Structure typeStandard on-ground station
Other information
Station codePL
Fare zoneWestern Railways
History
Opened1867
ElectrifiedYes
Services
Preceding station  
MSR
  Following station
toward Churchgate
Western Line
toward Dahanu Road
Location
Lower Parel
Location within Mumbai

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 of Mumbai.

It will have a connection to phase II of the Mumbai Monorail,[1] due to open in 2015.

Lower Parel platformboard

See also

Notes and references

  1. "L&T consortium bags Mumbai monorail project". The Hindu. 11 November 2008.


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