Mumbai’s last remaining non-AC double-decker coaches of the ‘09023-24’ Valsad Fast Passenger train are soon to be phased out as their codal life is over and will be replaced by regular LHB coaches. The Western Railway (WR) is, however, working on a proposal to transform these coaches into ‘restaurants on wheels’.
 
The WR, earlier known as Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway (BB&CI), was the first to operate the double- decker coaches in the 1860s to cater to increasing crowds.  

“The last non-AC double- decker train of Mumbai is being phased out by December this year as its codal life has expired. We are examining the idea of preserving the coaches as a restaurant on wheels. This will be India’s first such restaurant on wheels in a double- decker coach,” said WR chief public relations officer Vineet Abhishek.