The Central Railway (CR) has hit upon another trick to stop the number of deaths occurring due to the casual crossing of railway tracks. In a multi-crore project, CR has decided to build high walls on either side of the entire 34-km stretch from CSMT to Thane-Diva to free the network from problems of trespassing, encroachment, and crowds crossing tracks.

While the walls had previously been built only at accident prone spots, this is possibly the first time that the entire 34-km stretch is being fenced in. The walls will be built as per recommendations of the Government Railway Police, who had listed accident prone sites along the CR tracks. "The construction of walls will be done to plug the various gaps in existing walls along the entire CR stretch, and save precious lives. It will also help consolidate the system and boost train movement," said Sunil Udasi, chief PRO, CR.