Panvel railway station

Panvel
Mumbai Suburban Railway station
File:Panvel railway station - Entrance.jpg Entrance to the Panvel station.
Location	Panvel
Coordinates
Owned by	Ministry of Railways, Indian Railways and CIDCO
Line(s)	and
Platforms	5 (including 3 island platform and 2 end platform)
Connections	Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport, Navi Mumbai International Airport
Construction
Structure type	Standard on-ground station
Parking	Yes
Other information
Station code	PNVL (Central), PL (Suburban)
Fare zone	Central Railways
History
Opened	1962
Electrified	Yes
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	1 million
Services
Preceding station   Mumbai Suburban Railway   Following station Khandeshwar toward Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus or Andheri Harbour Line Terminus Kalamboli toward Vasai Road Central Railway Vasai Road-Diva-Panvel line Terminus
Route map Legend  Mumbai Suburban Railway  x20px Mumbai CST 20px Line 3 Masjid Bunder Sandhurst Road (Harbour line) Sandhurst Road (Central line) Dockyard Road Reay Road Cotton Green Sewri x20px Vadala Road Line 1 Kings Circle x20px Western line to Churchgate x20px x20px Mahim Mithi River Bandra x20px x20px Khar x20px x20px Santacruz x20px x20px Vile Parle File:BSicon xCPICme.svg Andheri 20px Line 1 x20px x20px Jogeshwari (planned) Oshiwara (planned) x20px x20px Goregaon (planned) Planned extension of Harbour line to Borivali railway station x20px Western line And Ahmedabad–Mumbai main line x20px GTB Nagar Line 1 Chunabhatti KurlaConnects to LTT Terminus Tilak Nagar Chembur Line 1 Govandi Mankhurd Thane Creek Vashi Sanpada Turbhe Kopar Khairane Ghansoli Rabale Airoli Thane Thane Creek Kalwa Mumbra x20px to Diva–Kalyan Juinagar Nerul Seawoods Panvel Creek Sagar Sangam Targhar Baman Dongri Kharkopar Gavhan Ranjanpada Nhava Sheva Dronagiri Uran CBD Belapur Kharghar Taloja River Mansarovar Khandeshwar To Diva–Vasai Panvel Konkan Railway

Panvel is a passenger rail station located in the Panvel suburb of Navi Mumbai. The station serves the Harbour Line and Central zone of the Mumbai Suburban Railway. It also inter-connects to the proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport, integrating along with Palm Beach Marg. Panvel station was originally opened as an rail freight transport in 1962, for limited service to Diva railway station. Regular commuter service began in 1964 for passengers headed to Khopoli.

Inbound and outbound trains shares a nine-car platform on the inbound track, requiring Panvel passengers to embark or debark from the forthcoming coaches of outbound trains or the rear coaches of inbound trains. Panvel also serves a parallel route for Karjat railway station which is known as the "Panvel-Karjat route". The route has been set up for cargo services travelling from Karjat to Navi Mumbai. An in-development terminus of the station has been proposed in 2007.

The Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport buses from the station serve the Old Panvel; it is expected to increase ridership at Old Panvel from 94% total daily boardings and alightings. After the success of the bus services, NMMT proposed to expand the bus services from the station.

History

Panvel-Diva era

The station was introduced as the "Panvel-Diva railway line", serving as rail freight transport in 1962 and was used as cargo services. The Indian Railways ministry had commissioned as the independent commuter railway services in 1964. In addition, a number of development activities had been conducted, including the track expansions, electrification of the coaches and introduction of a number of long-route express trains.

Proposed terminus development

The in-development Panvel Suburban Terminus in 2012

In 2007, the Central Railways ministries had proposed to develop a terminus, serving the inbound and outbound long distance express trains. According to the general manager, V. K. Kaul, it was announced that the project will be developed with an expenditure of ₹22 crore (US$3.3 million). City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) stated that the corporation also has a two-third of expenditure on the project and the CR has the major expenditure plan. However, in 2015 the project was re-announced with a total expenditure of ₹126 crore (US$19 million) from the CR ministries. The CR ministries also stated that the development of the terminus will be completed in 2018. The terminus also consists two separate platforms for the express trains.

Services and further development

CIDCO corridor project

CIDCO has implemented a six-corridor railway project including the Mankhurd - Belapur - Panvel Railway Line and Panvel/Belapur - Uran Railway Line. The project will be developed with an expenditure on a ratio of 67:33; ₹466 crore (US$69 million) from Indian Railways and ₹946 crore (US$140 million) from CIDCO, covering a length of 200 kilometres (120 mi) and occupying 900 hectares of land.

The Mankhurd - Belapur - Panvel Railway Corridor Line was first commissioned on 25 January 1995 as a single line connecting to Khandeshwar station from Belapur station. The line was subsequently expanded to Panvel on 29 June 1998. On 14 April 2000, the line got subsequently expanded as double line services from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus to Panvel.

The Panvel/Belapur - Uran Corridor Line was originally planned in 1996, but later it was halted due to unknown reasons in 2008. According to the 2009 reports, the expenses of the project was around ₹1,412.17 crore (US$210 million), including the expenses of constructing foot-over bridges and installation of railway network for Belapur station from the proposed station Sagarganga (Kille). The planned stations between the route including Seawoods, Sagar Sangam, Targhar, Bamandongari, Kharkopar, Gavhan, Ranjanpada, Nava-Sheva, Dronagiri and Uran with a length of 27 kilometres (17 mi), will be developed in the first phase of the project in 2017. Due to the scarcity of the land required for the tracks development, a 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) of forest land between Gavhan and Ranjanpada stations will be acquired by the corporation for phase 2 of the development.

Implementation of shuttle train services

In 2006, the Central Railways ministries had proposed the shuttle train services between Karjat station and Panvel. The plan was implemented as the cargo service trains uses the single track of the Panvel-Karjat route. On October 2015, the shuttle train services were started between Diva station and Panvel on the trial basis. Due to the establishment of shuttle train services, the commuters from the New Panvel can travel directly to Diva.

Track elevation

File:Palm Beach Road, Belapur, Mumbai.jpg

Palm Beach road, binds connectivity points from CST to Panvel

File:Panel-Karjat cargo train.jpg

Cargo trains from Panvel to Karjat

In 2012, CIDCO had proposed a 25 kilometres (16 mi) metro corridor of Navi Mumbai Metro, linking from Belapur to the proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport. However, on January 2016, the CST-Panvel elevated corridor project was proposed by Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MVRC) to connect the route along Palm Beach Marg to the proposed international airport. The corridor, although was originally proposed to link the parallel route between Reay Road and Panvel. The report was revised on February 2016 of the project and was stated that the corridor will be integrated with the Navi Mumbai Metro, connecting the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport to the proposed airport.

On June 2014, it was announced that the Panvel-Karjat route will get track extension under the phase 3 of the Mumbai Urban Transport Project scheme with an expenditure of ₹1,809 crore (US$270 million). On February 2015, MVRC approved the extension of tracks with an expenditure of ₹2,024 crore (US$300 million); reducing the distance of the route to 78 kilometres (48 mi).

Bus connections

The station serves as the major hub from the Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport (NMMT) bus routes serving the Navi Mumbai areas. On August 2015, NMMT and Panvel Municipal Corporation (PMC) had implemented to start the bus services serving the three major parts of the city from the station, including Sai Naka, Uran Naka and Palaspa Pata.

Bus no.	Route (from)	Route (to)
24	New Panvel (east)	Thane (now defunct; serves to Belapur)
111	Panvel station	Mantralaya, Mumbai (proposed from Kalamboli)

External links

• Panvel railway station at Wikimapia

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