Missed trains, pulling the chain for someone waiting on the wrong platform, boarding the wrong train, being on train as it leaves while seeing off relatives and friends, and mystery chain pulling are the top five excuses for pulling alarm chains on trains leading to delays in Mumbai division of the Central Railway. The authorities have urged passengers to not pull the alarm chain for such reasons as they lead to delay.

Other reasons included sleeping passengers, luggage left behind, quarrels among passengers, medical issues, wrong display of coach position and even forgotten mobile phones and tickets inside trains.