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Photos: Check out Mumbai's new blue and pink Monorails

Starting Sunday, Mumbai will become the first city in India to use a monorail. Here are the images

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FP Staff|Feb 05, 2014, 10:23:40 IST

[caption id="attachment_136713" align="alignleft" width="940"]mono1 The new monorail in Mumbai - seen here -  was inaugurated on Saturday and made available for public use today. Image courtesy Sachin Gokhale[/caption] [caption id="attachment_136713" align="alignleft" width="940"]mono2 Policemen hover near the security checks of the new monorail. It rund between Wadala and Chembur in the eastern fringes of Mumbai. Image courtesy Sachin Gokhale[/caption] [caption id="attachment_136713" align="alignleft" width="940"]mono3 The monorail is done up in bright shades of pink and blue. The monorail is linked to major local train stations. So the station at Chembur is connected with a skywalk to the monorail station near it. Image courtesy Sachin Gokhale[/caption] [caption id="attachment_136713" align="alignleft" width="940"]mono4 Monorail at the Wadala station. To start with, the monorail will run every 15 minutes between 7 am and 3 pm. Image courtesy Sachin Gokhale[/caption] [caption id="attachment_136714" align="alignleft" width="940"]mono5 The Wadala station signal. When the entire monorail project is completed, it will be 20 km long and connect Jacob Circle in south Mumbai to Chembur in eastern Mumbai. Image courtesy Sachin Gokhale[/caption] [caption id="attachment_136714" align="alignleft" width="940"]mono6 The two monorail trains seen here. All coaches of the monorail trains are air-conditioned; each train will carry 560 passengers. Image courtesy Sachin Gokhale[/caption] [caption id="attachment_136714" align="alignleft" width="940"]mono7 The security checks at the Wadala station. Tickets are priced between Rs five and Rs eleven with six stations on the way. Image courtesy Sachin Gokhale[/caption]

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First Published:Feb 05, 2014, 10:18:16 IST
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