A WR motorman and guard are in trouble for a very unique oversight — forgetting to halt the train at four successive stations. The motorman Vinay Gujar was driving the 5.52 am local from Virar to Churchgate and did not stop at any stations between Borivali and Andheri causing absolute chaos among the passengers travelling in the local. Senior officers are flummoxed at how this could happen.
Surprisingly, guard Maheshwar Panda also forgot to caution motorman over this act of omission. According to a senior motorman, this is first case of a motorman missing four consecutive stations Mr Gujar seemed to be under the impression that it was a slow local up to Borivali and then a fast local from there on.
The guard has maintained that the local used to run as a fast local and was converted into a slow local from Andheri on June 16 and the motorman may not have been aware of that. However, other motormen have rubbished this claim. “When timing or schedules of trains are changed, the motormen is given a correction slip immediately,” said another senior motorman.
“I boarded the train from Mira Road and I had to get off at Goregaon station to go Filmcity. But, I was astonished to find that my train did not halt at Kandivali, Malad, Goregaon and Jogeshwari. I had to get off at Andheri and travel back to Goregaon. I wasted nearly 40 minutes,” said passenger Prakash Dubey. Western Railway PRO Nitin David confirmed the incident and said they were looking into the matter.