In the coming months, people will be able to book tickets on the Neral-Matheran line through the central booking system of the Indian Railways. There will be more rail services to the hill station, while the toy train could also be upgraded from six cars to eight cars. These are plans Central Railway has for Mumbai’s favourite weekend getaway, even as it reconstructs the entire 20-km stretch. 

The Central Railway is working on various parameters to upgrade the existing Aman Lodge-Matheran narrow gauge train service, said officials.
“Work on laying of optic fibre cables was also in final stages and once this was achieved, Matheran station would also come on the Passenger Reservation System [PRS] map and one could book online tickets for the mini train,” said a railway official.