While Western Railway (WR) commuters complained of crowding at stations caused by speed restrictions and cancellations due to ongoing work at Malad station, officials said that cancellations would come down to 60 to 70 by Wednesday morning and normalcy would resume by Friday.

“Work has been going on for more than 25 days and now we have reached a crucial phase, the signalling test, for which we need to restrict the speed of trains to 30 kmph. The speed caution on the fast lines will be taken off on Wednesday morning, reducing half the cancellations and the restrictions on the slow lines will go away by Friday morning after which a major block will be taken,” a WR spokesperson said.