India, Aug. 11 -- Suburban train services on both Central Railway (CR) and Western Railway (WR) were disrupted on Monday after separate technical problems, causing delays, cancellations and overcrowding during the morning peak hours.

On the Central Line, train services were briefly affected at Mulund after a piece of wire fell on the overhead electrical equipment during the demolition of an old foot overbridge. On the Western Line, signalling failures at three locations disrupted services through the morning.

The incident at Mulund station occurred around 11.53 am, during work being carried out by the Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC). The piece of wire falling on the overhead equipment triggered heavy sparking, a loud sound and smok...