Mumbai Monorail

A monorail is a rail-based transportation system based on a single rail, which acts as its sole support and its guideway.

The Line 1, also referred to as Jacob Circle-Wadala-Chembur line/corridor, of the Mumbai Monorail is part of the rapid transit system for the city of Mumbai, India. It will cost approximately INR3000 crore.The 19.54 km line will be fully elevated.

In the first phase, it will consist of 7 stations from Wadala to Chembur.Line 1 will be the first monorail in India, since the closing of the Patiala State Monorail Trainways in 1927. Line 1 is the world's second longest monorail corridor, after the 21.2 km long Osaka Monorail Main Line in Japan.

The Master Plan prepared by the DMRC, has been divided into the following phases for the implementation of the project: First phase from Wadala to Chembur is 8.80 km long. Second phase from Wadala to Sant Gadge Maharaj Chowk is 11.20 KM long.

Mumbai Monorail Station Names

1 Chembur
2 VN Purav Marg
3 Fertiliser Colony
4 Bharat Petroleum
5 Mysore Colony
6 Bhakti Park
7 Wadala Depot
8 GTB Nagar
9 Antop Hill
10 Acharya Atre Nagar
11 Wadala Bridge
12 Dadar
13 Naigaon
14 Ambedkar Nagar
15 Mint Colony/Saibaba Road
16 Lower Parel
17 Chinchpokli
18 Jacob Circle

News regarding Mumbai Monorail

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was supposed to inaugurate the project on November 29 2008 but the ceremony was called-off due to the recent terrorist attack.

Dec 4, 2008 Work on the ambitious monorail project has begun sans the foundation stone laying ceremony

Trial Run on Anilk – Wadala road flagged by Hon’ble Chief Minister on 26th January, 2010

In 2011, a slab from the monorail collapsed, killing two persons

February 18, 2012 The monorail testing done by Malaysia's Scomi Group which is building the monorail along with Larsen & Toubro. The public testing of the monorail done from Wadala Depot to Mysore Colony, a distance of over 4 km.

Know Mumbai Monorail

The Chembur-Wadala-Jacob Circle corridor of the Mumbai Monorail, is 19.5 km-long
The project was awarded to a consortium of L&T, and Scoomi, which is a Malaysian infrastructure company
The contract for the Chembur-Wadala-Jacob Circle corridor was for Rs 2,700 crore