Reay Road is a railway station on the
Harbour Line of the
Mumbai Suburban Railway. The station is a Grade-I heritage structure. The other 4 stations on Mumbai's heritage list include Byculla, Bandra, CST and Churchgate. Reay Road was named after
Lord Reay,
Governor of Bombay between 1885 and 1890. It was opened in 1910 and was originally used as a terminus for the Kurla-Reay Road harbour line. Commuters had to take a tram to continue the journey to Bombay (now
Mumbai). The letters GIPR can be seen on either side of the station. GIPR is the abbreviation for
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, the first rail line in India.