Commuters on the Trans-Harbour line - Thane to Vashi and Panvel - had a harrowing experience during morning peak hours on Thursday , as services remained suspended for nearly three and a half hours after a rail track cracked while a Track Relaying Train (TRT) was installing new sleepers (concrete strips on which tracks are placed) near Airoli at around 6.30 am.

Employees working hard to fix the track (inset), so that services could be resumed at the earliest. Pics/Shrikant Khuperkar