India: Central Railway to issue tender for 153 Harbour coaches

The Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC) officials have finally decided to open the tenders for the 153 new coaches to be procured for Harbour line.
This had been announced under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP) II, but the decision was taken only after the MRVC met with Central Railway (CR) officials to discuss works of MUTP III, which has been sanctioned in this year’s Railway budget. “The 153 coaches for Harbour line, which would be 12 trains of 12 coaches, was a long-proposed project and for whatever reason this is the last major project in the proposed MUTP II that is yet to materialise,” said an official, on the condition of anonymity. The Harbour line currently has 36 rakes on the mainline and 22 on the Trans-Harbour line.