Here's an exclusive sneak peek into Central Railway's new train seats

Updated On: 24 January, 2016 06:43 PM IST | | Shashank Rao

<p>SUNDAY mid-day's sneak peek into Central Railway’s work in progress for the new seating arrangements (which turns out to be a lot of standing)</p>

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Here's an exclusive sneak peek into Central Railway's new train seats

The 101-year-old Matunga Central Railway Workshop — 14 acres inundated with metal, rails, wheels and grease cans — has become a new ground for experiments. The workshop has come up with modified seats for Mumbai's Central Railway (CR) local trains, the first of which will roll out on January 29. Sunday mid-day got an exclusive peek into the making of these new seats, as well as the new seating arrangement, meant for CR’s 42 lakh commuters.

(L-R) Engineers VD Satam, SK Shrivatra and Akshay Pande in the new 2+2 coach at the Matunga Central Railway Workshop. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi