Commuters at 31 stations across Mumbai will soon be able to use their debit and credit card to get a ticket through the ticket vending machines. The Central Railway (CR) has finalised the list of stations across Maharashtra after successful trials of the modified machines.

mid-day had reported in 2018 about the CR's plan to modify the existing Automatic Ticket Vending Machine (ATVM) to add the new feature. The IT arm of the railways, the Centre for Railway Information Systems, has been given the responsibility of modifying the ATVMs.