Archive · 20 Sep 2025
India Boosts Train Safety: Automatic Doors and Bullet Train Training
Indian Railways is making train travel safer.
All new Mumbai local trains will have automatic doors, and older ones will get them too.
This is being done to stop people from falling out of moving trains.
The government is also buying new AC trains and improving the ventilation in the new non-AC trains.
For the new bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, Indian workers are training in Japan to learn how to run and maintain it safely.
All new local trains will have automatic door-closing systems.
Existing non-AC trains will be retrofitted with the technology.
Procurement process for 238 new AC local trains has begun.
Indian teams are training in Japan for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train.
First phase of Bullet Train operations targeted for 2027.
- Who
- Indian Railways
- What
- Is implementing automatic doors on local trains and training personnel for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train
- When
- Announcements made on Saturday, first new non-AC train by Nov 2025
- Where
- Mumbai and Ahmedabad, India; Japan
- Why
- To enhance passenger safety and operational readiness
Passengers safety concerns
Government efficiency and modernizing India
Investment
Passengers safety concerns
prioritize passenger safety by retrofitting existing fleet and procuring new trains.
Government efficiency and modernizing India
Promoting infrastructure investment will drive economic growth.
- Announcement
- Automatic door closers on all new and retrofitted local trains
- Minister
- Ashwini Vaishnaw
- Trains Affected
- New and existing non-AC local trains
- AC Trains
- Procurement process for 238 new AC trains
- Bullet Train Launch
- Targeted for 2027
- Personnel Training
- Indian teams training in Japan for Bullet Train
Sources
Mumbai locals to get automatic doors by December in major safety upgrade
Mumbai Locals To Get Automatic Doors By Year-End In Major Safety Push
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Conducts Breakthrough of 5-km-long Bullet Train Tunnel in Maharashtra's Thane
Mumbai News: 'All New Local Trains To Feature Automatic Door Closers,' Says Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw
Indian Railways To Equip All New Local Trains With Automatic Doors; Non-AC Coaches To Be Retrofitted