In what can be termed as historic, a Diva-Ratnagiri passenger train on Thursday became the first from Mumbai side to roll down the tracks of the Konkan Railway with an electric locomotive. The train attached with a dual-voltage WCAM-3 class engine went from Diva to Ratnagiri, said officials.

On January 19, it was the Yeshwantpur-Karwar express that went into the annals of railway electrification history for being the first passenger train to be hauled by an electric loco on the newly electrified stretch of Thokur near Mangaluru to Karwar of the Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd (KRCL).