The Central Railway (CR) crossed a major milestone with its mega block yesterday - the very first stretches of the much-awaited fifth and sixth lines are finally in place.

On Sunday, in a joint effort by CR and the Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC), the newly-built Kalyan-bound slow line was linked to the older line. This means that from this morning, slow suburban trains to Kalyan will use the 1.2-km stretch of the newly constructed line. On October 14, the CST-bound Up corridor (Line 6) will be connected similarly.