Thousands of commuters traveling on Mumbai’s Central line were stranded on Wednesday after two back-to-back incidents of technical failure took place. The Kalyan-Thane line was severely affected after two trains were stranded at different locations along the stretch, both going to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST).

The first incident occurred at Dombivali at around 6.40 a.m. when an Ambernath-CST slow train was stranded after the pantograph of the train got entangled with the overhead cables.

While the railway authorities were fixing the damaged pantograph, all the slow trains were diverted on to the fast line between Kalyan and Thane, which led to trains not halting at Thakurli, Kopar, Diva, Mumbra and Kalwa stations. “The commuters at Mumbra and Kalwa stations had to go further north to catch a fast train,” a CR official said.