Commuters on the Central Railway’s much-neglected harbour line, have something to look forward to as the new air-conditioned trains are set to arrive in May 2019. Railway officials said that the Central Railway’s Mumbai division has strongly sought closed-door air-conditioned local trains from the railway board chairman during his recent visit to Mumbai.

“About 38 12-car air-conditioned trains are expected to arrive by May 2019, which will be split into six air-conditioned coaches each and attached to regular trains. Hence, there would be 76 partial AC trains with six-car AC and six-car regular coaches. Once we receive them, we intend to introduce few of them on the Harbour line,” a senior official said.