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Journalist @mid_day Author of books on India's rail history & heritage. Biographer of Metro & Railway Man Dr. E. Sreedharan. Museology @csmvsmumbai

Apr 1, 2022, 20 tweets

What A Day! The city is getting new trains & new rail lines. Back home after walking up along new lines, visiting stations & spotting the classy Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML) Metros, capturing all the excitement before it all formally opens up in a few hours. 1/n #MumbaiMetro22

The two Metro lines cross over suburban railway and nallah at Dahisar over a tall viaduct at this point. 2/n

This is the tall Metro rail viaduct that connects Yellow Line 2A and Red Line 7. It passes along the link road. A few glimpses from various angles 3/n

Metro in the city. A few snapshots of Dahisar west with the Metro viaduct in the background. 4/n

This is the Metro rail viaduct from above the road bridge. At Kandarpada Dahisar.

Kandarpada. The first station on the Yellow Line 2A from Dahisar end.

Coming on the Red Line 7 to the Aarey Metro station till where this line opens from Saturday. A steel viaduct base over the Goregaon station junction crossing. 7/n

This is the Aarey Metro station till where the line opens on Saturday 8/n

Let's enter the Metro Aarey station to see how it is from inside. Preparations on for the big launch in a few hours. The main concourse. The escalators go up to the platform 9/n

Far behind in the centre is the ticket booking area and am standing in the ticketed area. Aarey station is on the Red Line 7.

This is the station platform. At the top level. In a first for Mumbai, the stations have platform screen doors. Aarey station. 11/n

A close up of the platform screen doors. Aarey station Metro Red Line 7. 12/n

An overview of the platform at Aarey, Red Line 7.

Preparations for the formal opening...

A peep into the station preparations a day before the launch at Aarey Red Line 7

A walkthrough inside the Aarey station. Red Line 7

The north end entrance and exit of Aarey station. Red Line 7

Back to Dahisar where I missed posting two videos. This yellow top train looks like one for the Yellow Line 2A. Six coaches. Heading to Kandarpada, Dahisar.

And last but not the least, the Metro train crossing Dahisar east to west and an EMU local train below taken from the suburban station.

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