In a bid to decongest the load of commuters at Dadar and cater to the rising crowd in Parel, 32 local train services will start and end from the new Parel terminus which will be inaugurated on Sunday. The last time a station was converted into a terminus on Central Railway (CR) was in 2007, when the Wadala-Panvel services were introduced.

CR had formally announced the Rs 51-crore Parel terminus project in 2015. The work on the project sped up after the Elphinstone station stampede in 2017. The previous slow train platform has been widened from 7 metres to 12 metres, and a new one has been added as well.