Mumbai Railway Stations Revamp, Indian Transport Architecture
Mumbai Railway Stations Revamp
Maharashtra Architecture News, India – design by JDAP Design-Architecture-Planning
17 May 2017
Mumbai’s suburban railway system
Mumbai Railway Stations Renewal
Design: JDAP Design-Architecture-Planning, Architects
More images added on 18th May
Mumbai’s suburban railway system carries over seven million passengers daily and is one of the busiest commuter rail networks in the world. The overground railway lines that cut through the city, form quite literally the framework upon which the city has been built over the years.
Kalyan Station building:

The railways have for several decades however, been hugely inadequate and out of sync with the demands of the massive metropolis, and the millions of commuters who make their daily trips from their workplaces and homes do so at their great inconvenience and discomfort. The station areas are sites of chaos and ramshackle growth and represent the gap between the needs and requirements of these crucial transport nodes and the available infrastructure that is being used to service those demands. Kalyan Station building:

The two station area precinct developments at Thane and Kalyan in the North East of the Mumbai metropolitan region proposed as part of the federal governments “Smart Cities Programme” address the issues of the railway station by firstly broadening the lens of a transportation project in the phys...