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'''Mumbai Port Trust Railway''' was commissioned on 1 January 1915.<ref name="DNA - July 3">{{cite news|last=Aklekar|first=Rajendra|title=Port trust yard may have city’s oldest rail wagons|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_port-trust-yard-may-have-citys-oldest-rail-wagons_1709782|access-date=4 November 2012|newspaper=[[Daily News and Analysis]]|date=3 July 2012}}</ref> The railway line was being utilized for grain and fuel depots and feeding the containers at the Bombay Port.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sorabjee|first=Deepika|title=Mumbai's eastern shorefront: Mangrove's last sigh?|url=http://www.cnngo.com/mumbai/life/bombay-port-trust-road-144082|access-date=4 November 2012|newspaper=[[CNN]]|date=27 October 2010}}</ref>

The port trust lines were not just used for conveying cargo, but also carry passengers and troops during [[World War II]].<ref name="DNA - July 3" /> In the 1920s and 1930s, the [[Ballard Pier Mole]] station on the Mumbai Port Trust Railway line was a starting point for the [[Frontier Mail]] which is now known as the [[Golden Temple Mail]].<ref name="IE - June">{{cite news|last=Rangnekar|first=Prashat|title=Harbour line speed plans open at Ballard Pier, decades after station shut|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/harbour-line-speed-plans-open-at-ballard-pier-decades-after-station-shut/636383/|access-date=4 November 2012|newspaper=[[Indian Express]]|date=21 June 2010}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Railways in Western India}}

[[Category:Rail transport in Mumbai]]
[[Category:Rail freight transport in India]]

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Mumbai Port Trust Railway - Revision history

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