India, Nov. 24 -- Harbour line services were disrupted for several hours on Sunday after the weekend's 12-hour mega block between Panvel and Belapur was extended by a couple of hours, delaying morning trains on the CSMT-Panvel route.

The overnight block, planned from 11:45pm on Saturday to 11:45am on Sunday, was to facilitate the Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation's (MRVC) work on the upcoming suburban corridor connecting Panvel and Karjat.

Rail officials said they had to dismantle and shift tracks and on platform 2 of the Panvel station they also had to insert railway turnouts which enable trains to move from one track to another. As per MRVC officials the purpose of the repair work was to extend the platforms by another 90m to facilitate t...