Over 1,000 people alighted at 8.45 am on Thursday at Mumbai Central from the first New Delhi-Mumbai Rajdhani Express to arrive in the city since the lockdown started. As they proceeded to their designated exits, passengers rued the absence of coolies as they dragged their luggage outside.

Those who did not have transport of their own were stamped and dispatched to their homes in city suburbs and to Pune and Kolhapur in a fleet of waiting BEST and ST (state transport) buses.