“There was a dead rat in some corner of the lobby and the smell was overpowering and hence the chairs and tables had been shifted out from the lobby into the main station hall of CSMT. The overall cleanliness of the place is also very bad. We cannot stop work as it would stop the lifeline of the city and hence, we are sitting out here waiting to take our trains,” an affected staffer said.

“The issue at Delhi was about loco pilots and this is an entirely different issue. While loco pilots are long-distance express train and goods train heavy drivers, motormen are local train drivers. There has been a dead rat in the lobby and the railways have initiated a thorough cleaning process,” an official said.

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“The issue is not about loco pilots or motormen, but upkeep of running rooms which is the responsibility of railways. If this is happening at the city’s biggest rail terminus at the headquarters, you can only imagine what happens at smaller stations at other ends,” another staffer said.