Now, Mumbai's Elphinstone Road station renamed as Prabhadevi

Within days of the Central Railway (CR) renaming the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus as the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, the Western Railway (WR) today rechristened the Elphinstone Road station as Prabhadevi.

The WR issued a notification to this effect here today.

The station, which was named after Lord Elphinstone, the Governor of Bombay Presidency from 1853 to 1860, has now been renamed in honour of a local deity.

"The notification about the renaming of the station has been issued and steps are being taken to make necessary changes, including updating it in our system," said the chief public relations officer of the WR, Ravinder Bhakar.

"It will take almost a week to complete all the formalities of changing the name," he added.

The WR said the code initials of the renamed station would be- PBHD.

It was Shiv Sena which had first made the demand to rename some suburban stations in Mumbai arguing they carried "colonial" names.

In December last year, the Maharashtra legislature had approved a Bill to rename the Elphinstone Road station, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) and the Mumbai airport.

Welcoming the renaming of the station, Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant told

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