Mumbai Local Train :Part 1

You wont know how you get attached to things and they become a part of your life unknowingly. They become so much a part of your like that you forget that such a relationship even exists. Its when you are separated that you feel the emptiness that faces you. Something similar is faced by people living in Mumbai when they move out of the city for an extended period of time.

Local trains are like a synonym for Mumbai itself.

Local trains are so intrinsically cast in the fabric of mumbai that its impossible to distinguish between the two. It wont be untrue to say that mumbai is a local train and a local train is mumbai. Perhaps its the spirit of mumbai that is embodied in the local train that endears the mumbai local to the people of mumbai.

Those 9-12 coaches of red and yellow are incessant between the terminal stations of CST - Churchgate and the far flung suburbs. Bringing millions of people into the city day in and day out for most of the 24 hours of the day is no mean feat at all.
No matter what the locals never stop. No doubt the "Mumbai never stops" attitude is more to do with the local trains and the people who drive it.

Each day people wake up with the conviction to catch the first local train in the morning. The reason being it takes an eternity to reach their office in the city from their home in the suburb or neighboring districts. Only the first local reaches them to office on time. The journey continues in the next post.