After accomplishing important achievements such as introducing the world's first-ever Ladies' Special on 5 May, 1991 and India's first-ever air-conditioned local train on 25 December, 2017, Western Railway continues to be pioneer in various fields and has now introduced India's first-ever Bottle Crushing Machine on train in view of promoting the 'Swachh Rail, Swachh Bharat' mission. Under the initiative, for the first time on Indian Railways, a Plastic Bottle Crushing Machine has been installed in a train's coach which is an important achievement for Western Railway's Lower Parel Workshop. The workshop installed this PET bottle crushing machine in LHB Pantry Car (03840 WR) which can crush 3,000 PET bottles in a day.

Amidst the celebrations of "Swachhta Hi Sewa" Pakhwada all over Indian Railway, Western Railway prepared & shared a Hindi short film on its social media platforms creating awareness against 'Single-Use Plastic' titled "Main Hoon Plastic Hatela" which has now become a super hit and is receiving accolades from everywhere. This viral video has received many 'likes' over Western Railway's social media handles and its popularity is increasing day by day. According to Ravinder Bhakar – Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, this 1 minute 41 seconds long interesting short film has received appreciation from Indian Railway's Twitter handle as well and have been shared by them too. CNBC Awaaz and many more media channels have called this short film a unique way of spreading awareness & has highly acknowledged Western Railway's efforts.