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BMC has forgotten the man responsible for Churchgate station
Updated On: 13 April, 2015 03:20 PM IST | | Varun Singh
<p>James Mackison, an engineer with the civic body in early 1900s, had lobbied for suburban railway to be extended from Grant Road to Churchgate. His portrait now languishes in BMC's headquarters at Fort</p>

In the early decades of the last century, one man had suggested that an elevated electric railway line be built from Marine Lines to Woodhouse Road in Colaba, that would also connect Fort and Bori Bunder. He was the one who had suggested that the suburban railway should not be stopped at the Grant Road station, but should be connected to Churchgate, as the traffic was increasing.

The portrait will now be shifted to a museum being planned in the BMC’s heritage wing
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