Suburban trains were plying in Harbour, Central and Western lines, but there was a marked dip in commuters.
MUMBAI: A shaken city returned to work accompanied by an uneasy calm on Wednesday, a day after serial blasts claimed about 200 lives.
Suburban trains were plying on the Harbour, Central and Western lines, but there was a marked dip in commuters, especially in First Class compartments.
All the blasts on Tuesday happened in First Class bogies.
Borivali-Virar trains on the Western line were plying every 30 minutes, instead of the usual 15 minutes. Trains between Churchgate, the starting station on Western, and Borivali were running 15 minutes late.
Rumours did the rounds that there have been blasts at Parel and Borivali stations on Wednesday. There was also talk of a blast in a bus at Bhayendar.
Road traffic was relatively low compared to the usual traffic congestion during peak hours in the city.
Many people who reached home late on Tuesday night after being stranded following the blasts reported late for work.
This was particularly evident in the Western suburbs. All the blasts had occurred on the Western Railway route.
Sixty to 70 per cent attendance was reported in broking firms and the benchmark Sensex shrugged off fears of a plunge following the blasts as a better than expected first quarter results by software major Infosys spurred the market sentiment.
"We were not expecting the Sensex to react much. We were expecting maybe a 200-250 point drop, but because of the good Infosys results, which were beyond expectations, I think the IT sector is pulling up the market," said DD Sharma, senior vice president, research, Anand Rathi Securities.
The Mumbai police released a detailed list of deceased and injured in the blasts.
The list is available at www.mumbaipolice.org
It contains detailed information about the dead or injured, including name, address and place of accident and hospital's name where they have been admitted, the Mumbai police said.
Information can also be obtained on helplines: 1090, 103, 100, 022-22653054, 022-2264-1752, 022-2264-1753, 022-2262-1855, 022-6451-3333, 022-6451-4444,022-6451-5555.
The Railways on Wednesday cancelled the Shatabdi Express from Ahmedabad and Mumbai and three trains originating from Mumbai.
The 2010 Shatabdi from Ahmedabad to Mumbai and its counterpart from Mumbai Train 2009, the 9023 Ferozepur Express, the 9215 Saurashtra Express from Mumbai to Ahmedabad and the 239B Ahmedabad passenger train have also been cancelled for the day.
The origin point of four trains have been changed. The Saurashtra Janata Express which runs from Bandra to Ahmedabad will now start from Valsad, the Siyaji Express to Bhuj from Virar, 245 Mumbai-Vapi from Vasai Road and Surat Intercity from Virar, a railway spokesman said.
A red alert has been sounded at all stations in Gujarat.
Ahmedabad's Kalupur station has been "sanitized" and extra deployment of Railway Protection Force has been ordered.
DRM Arvind Khare on Wednesday inspected security measures at the reservation office, platforms and waiting halls.
Massive security checks with the help of sniffer dogs and bomb detection squads were carried out at all the stations en route to Mumbai.
The railways have sought assistance of Gujarat Police's regular forces.
Mumbakars speak:
"We're used to crises here. We've had bombs, we had the water last year (referring to the July cloudburst). The city survives." -- Makarand Bhopatkar, 35, a corporate trainer.
"People are getting slightly inured to these things so they don't cause as much panic as in earlier days. I am really happy that people reacted very positively to this, politicians can learn from this," -- Jayant Pai, vice president, Parag Parikh Financial Advisory Services Ltd.
"The spirit of Mumbai is really great -- all those people coming out to help, come what may. And I think the credit should be given to the government. They reacted swiftly, and the trains are back to running again." -- Sonal Barot, 40, an office worker.
"I'm not from Mumbai so even if Mumbai is used to all this, I'm not. But I was impressed with the Mumbai spirit of helping others." -- Priyadarshani Das, 23, a summer trainee at Deutsche Bank.
-- With inputs from agencies
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