Western Railway's Rs 500-cr upgrade gets a jolt on Day 1

Grand conversion to 25,000-volt AC power supply was marred by 3 overhead wire failures -- one caused by a crow -- wasting the valuable time of lakhs of commuters. After spending a staggering Rs 500 crore to upgrade its power system from 1,500-volt Direct Current (DC) to 25,000-volt Alternating Current (AC), officials at Western Railway (WR) were left red in the face yesterday, when the very first day under the new system got off to an ominous start with overhead failures at

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