Three days after commemorating 97 years of India`s first electric train, Central Railway Mumbai on Sunday started the process of pulling down the electric substation that had powered it, to make way for a new rail corridor. The substation in Kurla was one of the last remaining vestiges of the industrial heritage of the country’s first electric railway.

mid-day had, in an article in September 2021, highlighted how Indian Railways’ oldest electric power substations at Kurla and Wadi Bunder that powered the first electric train were in ruins. As promised, the Central Railway on Sunday segregated some part of the old equipment from the site to be saved at the heritage gallery.