This led to the detention of nine local trains one behind the other. The faulty train restarted after a while, but not before delaying the entire morning rush hour. A commuter onboard the train said the train at Kharghar station refused to move and kept on waiting for quite some time. The pantographs were brought down and reset after which the train moved again on its own by 12.30pm. It took around 1.30pm for things to normalise.

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