Mira Road (Pronunciation: [miɾaː]; station code: MIRA) is a passenger railway station located at Mira Road, a suburb in the Western Suburbs of Mumbai. It is situated between Borivali and Bhayandar stations on the Western line, of Mumbai Suburban Railway. The route of the station is located between the salt pan towards the western zone of the suburb leading towards Bhayandar.
It falls under the slow line category of Western Railways in Mumbai Suburban since Dahanu to Churchgate and other (double) fast locals from Vasai Road and Virar have been running. Those few trains directly halt from Bhayandar to Dahisar or directly at Borivali on the up-line service and vice-versa on the down-line service.
Trains serve the station 22 hours a day every day; the headway between trains is 5 minutes during peak periods, with less than 10 mins service at other times.
Platform No(s). 1 and 3 are for Down bound Trains towards Bhayandar, Vasai Road and Virar while Platform No(s). 2 and 4 are for Up bound Trains towards Borivali, Andheri, Bandra, Dadar and Churchgate. Slow Trains use Platform No(s). 1 and 2 (with an exemption of Fast Trains originating from and terminating at Bhayandar, Vasai Road, Nallasopara and many Virar locals which also use the same platforms) while Platform No(s). 3 and 4 are used by Fast Trains originating from and terminating at Virar.
Mira Road station is also served by three bus services including BEST Transport, MBMT Transport and TMT Transport buses, serving the areas of Western Suburbs, Mumbai City District, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Mira Bhayandar. [3]
It is one of the crowded railway stations during peak hours on the Western Line of Mumbai Suburban Railways (Locals).
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