As part of the new timetable announced by the Central Railway (CR) on Sunday, 12 AC local train services will replace regular ones and all services till Andheri will be extended to/from Goregaon from December 1 onwards. Anil Kumar Lahoti, general manager of CR said that the extension of the Panvel-Andheri and CSMT-Andheri services to Goregaon, in coordination with the Western Railway, will help passengers save time and travel seamlessly between Navi Mumbai and Mumbai.

mid-day had first highlighted on November 17 how the CR had planned to extend all Andheri services to Goregaon. The salient features of the timetable include introduction of 12 AC local train services on the harbour line and extension of all CSMT-Andheri services and Panvel-Andheri services to/from Goregaon station. About 44 services running between CSMT and Andheri will be extended to/from Goregaon (currently 42 services are running between the two stations), 18 services running between Panvel and Andheri will be extended to/from Goregaon and two services running between CSMT and Bandra will be extended to/from Goregaon. In total, the number of services from/to Goregaon will increase from 42 to 106 and the total number of services from/to Bandra will be 86.