Overview
- Railway staff found a piece of cloth entangled on platform 2 at Sewri station, which stopped CSMT-bound Harbour line trains during the morning rush on Saturday.
- Officials switched off the overhead equipment (OHE) power so teams could remove the cloth, and services were restored at 10:13 a.m.
- Commuters reported delays of about 15 to 20 minutes and video posted on social media showed several passengers walking along the tracks while trains were halted.
- The response followed standard safety practice of isolating OHE power before physical intervention, but the incident underlines how small foreign objects can cascade into wider disruption on high-demand lines.
- The Sewri stoppage comes days after a larger Central Railway failure earlier in the week that caused many cancellations, long delays, and reports of deaths on tracks, raising fresh questions about infrastructure resilience and passenger safety.