New age, new design: 25 years later, Western Railway’s Mumbai division has proposed new designs for canteen stalls at the city’s railway stations. The new, aesthetic and narrower stalls have been designed in a “participative manner” to help decongest existing platforms. “The older stalls were designed in 1999, but the aim now is to refine the design further and install new-look stalls,” an official said. Some of the key features include a rate list at eye level, back-lit boards and the inclusion of fire-resistant materials.

The new stall design at Marine Lines station. Pic/Sayeed Sameer Abedi