India, July 15 -- Mumbai could get its first underground suburban railway station, at Byculla on the Central Railway, if plans for an underground corridor between Parel and CSMT get the green signal.

The underground corridor is part of one of Mumbai's biggest suburban rail expansion projects that is seeing the addition of the fifth and sixth railway lines along the 17.5-km-long Kurla-Parel-CSMT stretch, to segregate suburban and long-distance services. While Phase I between Kurla and Parel is underway, the second phase, from Parel to CSMT, is being studied.

The Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC) executing the project is considering an underground tunnel for the fast suburban corridor between Parel and CSMT, with a halt at Byculla, ...