Central Railway’s local train services hit by back-to-back snags; commuters face 1.5 hour delays (Express Photo by Deepak Joshi)

Mumbai local train services on Central Railway’s (CR) main line between Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) and Kalyan were disrupted on Monday, October 26, following two consecutive incidents involving overhead equipment and signaling systems, causing delays of one to one and a half hours. A video surfacing on social media shows commuters walking on railway tracks after Mumbai local train services got disrupted.

The first disruption on the Mumbai local train services was reported around 9.23 am, when a foreign wire was found hanging from the overhead equipment (OHE) on the down local line between Mulund and Thane stations, near the 31/146 km mark.…