Ram Mandir railway station


Ram Mandir railway station is a railway station on the Western and Harbour lines of the Mumbai Suburban Railway, serving the Oshiwara locality. The station is located in between Jogeshwari railway station and Goregaon railway station and is named after the century-old temple of Lord Ram in its vicinity, after political pressure from the Bharatiya Janata Party. The station was opened to commuters on 22 December 2016.

History

The Ram Mandir Road station, the 37th station on the Western Line, was inaugurated on 22 Dec 2016, by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, after seemingly interminable stages of construction since 2008. Its first train, running from Churchgate to towards Borivli, arrived at 6 pm, while another bound for Churchgate pulled up at 6.10 pm.
The station has four platforms, two each for Western line slow trains and two for Harbour line section. Harbour line was extended to Goregaon on March 29, 2018.
The station got its name from a 150 year old temple of Lord Ram. The temple is located on sprawling grounds, in Goregaon West, and its weathered dome lends it a pleasant patina of age. A signboard inside the temple informs visitors that it was renovated in 1897, and residents say that a temple existed at the current location prior to that year. The idols -- of Lord Ram, Lakshman and Sita – inside the sanctum sanctorum of the smaller temple, were transferred to the renovated structure.