Full Resolution The Mumbai trains serve 7.5 million people a day (and the whole metro area is just 18 million, so you can do the math). There were about 300 people in our train car. Second class, 25 rupees ($0.40) for the two-hour ride out.
The train started at about 50% capacity at the station, and I figured it would get less and less by the end (which is pretty rural). But no! The stations far out are served infrequently, so the trains actually get more and more crowded the further you go. We are definitely in the rural-ish countryside by now, about 60 km from Bombay proper.
