7 Railway Stations in Mumbai Renamed
The Maharashtra Assembly Tuesday July 09, 2024 unanimously passed a resolution to change the names of seven Railway Stations that have ‘colonial connections’
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Assembly Tuesday July 09, 2024 unanimously passed a resolution to change the names of seven Railway Stations that have ‘colonial connections’.
As per the government resolution, the Currey Road station on Central Railway, will be henceforth called as Lalbaug.
The Marine Lines and Charni Road stations on the Western Lines have been renamed as Mumba Devi and Girgaum station respectively.
On Harbour Railway, the Cotton Green railway station will be renamed as Kala Chowki, Dockyard Road as Mazgaon and Kings Circle as Tirthankar Parshwanath Railway Station.
Sandhurst Road railway station, which is the on the junction of Harbour Line and Central Railways, will be henceforth called as Dongri Station.
Mumbai Local Trains - Brief History
The first train in Mumbai was run by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (now Central Railway) between Bori Bunder (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, earlier Victoria Terminus V.T.) and Thane, a distance of 34 km (21 mi), on 16 April 1853.
The first local train service of Western Railway was introduced between Virar and Backbay on April 12, 1867 run by Bombay Baroda and Central Indian (BB&CI) railway company. Backbay railway station was located between the station of Churchgate and Marine lines.
On the other hand, the first section of the Harbour lLine, between Kurla and Reay Road, opened on 12 December 1910. In 1925, the line was connected to the then Victoria Terminus via an elevated rail corridor between Dockyard Road and Sandhurst Road.
The naming of the railway stations have different reasons. Churchgate station was named as it was close to St. Thomas Cathedral – a key landmark of the area.
Cotton Green railway station was named so as this is where India’s first cotton exchange is believed to have begun.
The name of Charni Road station is part of the enduring legacy of philanthropist Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, in whose name J.J. Hospital is still operational.
When the British introduced a tax for grazing cattle on public grounds, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy purchased a huge plot of land for free grazing and the area soon became famous as Charni Road, from the local word for grazing – ‘charna’.
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