The
Salsette Trombay Railway also known as the
Central Salsette Tramway was a railway line on the island of
Salsette in the city of
Mumbai (Bombay),
India. The line was opened in 1928 by the
Great Indian Peninsular Railway under the
Bombay Improvement Trust which called for
"the opening up of a Railway line running West to South-east and linking up the Andheri and Kurla stations to
render available for building purposes vast tracts of land sufficiently close to the city." Hence the line linked
Andheri in the north with the village of
Trombay in the east. The
standard gauge heavy rail line was about 13 km long. During weekends, the line was frequented by picnickers who used to travel to Trombay to buy
toddy or palm liquor. In 1934 the line was shut to make way for the
Santacruz Airport.