Western Railway will start its air-conditioned local services today with a Borivali-Churchgate service commencing at 10:30am on Monday. Western Railway chief spokesperson Ravinder Bhakar earlier said that the last technical trial run of the Air Condition take was conducted on Sunday in the front of the senior officers and it was successful.The official said that the air-conditioned local services will at first run only in the Churchgate-Borivali section. From January 1, it will run from Churchgate to Virar having 12 services per day, he added.

Charting out the train's operational routine, a Western Railway statement said that out of 12 services of the AC local train,8will run as fast local trains between Churchgate and Virar, stopping only at major stations like Mumbai Central, Dadar, Bandra, Andheri, Borivali, Bhayander & Vasai Road in both directions.3 fast services will run between Churchgate and Borivali stopping at Mumbai Central, Dadar, Bandra and Andheri stations in both directions, it went on to add.One slow service of the AC local will operate between Mahalaxmi to Borivali early morning.Informing about the fare, the message said that the base fare of the single journey of AC local shall be 1.3 times of the base fare of existing fare of the single journey first class ticket.