Ram Mandir railway station (station code: RMAR) is a railway station on the Western and Harbour lines of the Mumbai Suburban Railway, serving the

Oshiwara Oshiwara is a neighbourhood in northern Mumbai, India near Lokhandwala Complex. Its name was derived from the Oshiwara River. Located between the western sides of Goregaon and Jogeshwari, it has many industrial estates. A railway station was b ...

locality. The station is located in between

Jogeshwari railway station Jogeshwari (station code: JOS) is a railway station in the Jogeshwari suburb of Mumbai Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the fi ...

and Goregaon railway station and is named after the century-old temple of Lord Ram in its vicinity. 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 December 2016, by Railway Minister

Suresh Prabhu Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu (born 11 July 1953) is an Indian politician. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1996 to 2009, representing Rajapur in the Lok Sabha. He was also a member of the ''Rajya Sabha'', representing Andhra Pradesh ...

, after seemingly interminable stages of construction since 2008. Its first train, running from to towards Borivli, arrived at 6 pm, while another bound for Churchgate pulled up at 6.10 pm. The distance between Jogeshwari and Goregaon stations was considered long enough, hence this station was created. The station has four platforms, two each for Western line slow trains and two for Harbour line section. Harbour line was extended to on 29 March 2018.

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