Speeding suburban trains of Mumbai city - clickety-clack of trains running on old lines

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For most commuters in Bombay, this clickety-clack sound would mean that home is near, and thus be a comforting sound! Life takes place on and off the railway tracks in Bombay. Slums are situated right up to the tracks, people walk on and off them just as trains have left or are due to arrive, millions use the trains to commute to work and back home in the distant and far less expensive suburbs. Hours per day can be spent on these crowded trains for the many who survive on jobs in the crowded financial capital of India - in the state of Maharashtra. Mumbai, previously known as Bombay, is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the commercial and entertainment capital of India. It is also one of the world's top ten centres of commerce in terms of global financial flow, gen