ThisDayThatYear: Steam Gives Way To Electric

Tuesday January 05,2021 by Team Khaki

This day, 92 years ago, Western Railway (then Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railway) got electrified, and the first electric local train ran between Colaba (yes, there was a station called Colaba then) and Andheri. The first railway line in Mumbai to get electrified, however, was the Harbour Line between Kurla and CSTM, three years earlier in 1925.