The Central Railway (CR) will soon include four local trains - three from Hyderabad and one from Howrah to help solve the local crisis on the Trans-Harbour line. The four trains — Medha rakes — have arrived at the Kurla car shed two weeks ago and are currently being upgraded to Uttam rakes to make the coaches compatible with CR, and will start functioning by the end of March next year.

"These new faster trains will come on the mainline [CSMT to Kalyan] and accordingly, a few Siemens trains from the mainline will be shifted to Sanpada car shed to run on the Trans-Harbour line," a senior official said. In a letter issued to CR by the railway board, it was learnt that initially, three trains were sent to Howrah from Hyderabad on the South Eastern Railway (SER). However, SER was unable to utilise the first-class composition of the trains. Hence, a total of four trains were transferred to CR.