Mumbai local trains running on direct current (DC) power will become history on Indian Railways main line next week after 90 years.
The dust brown and yellow trains have been a Mumbai trademark all these years.
Only 36 pure DC Electric Multiple Unit trains (26 9-car and ten 12-car) remain on harbour and trans harbour, which too will also b slowly converted, retrofitted into AC-DC.
All the locos have already been converted and no single pure DC loco remains today.
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http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/DC-trains-will-cease-to-operate-on-Main-Line-from-May-23/articleshow/47312559.cms
Published on May 17, 2015 10:30