mumbai western railway wr services were affected during the morning rush hour due to a track fracture between goregaon and malad stations on fridaywr had to cancel as many as 25 services due to the disruption on the slow corridor on the borivlibound routethe fracture was detected by the gangmen at 9am due to this slow services towards borivli were diverted on the fast track till 1030am said a senior wr official the fracture was found to 5cmlong the diversion affected the punctuality of train services on all the four tracks he added we could have temporarily joined the broken rail with a joggle plate but it was not possible as the fracture happened at the switchover point as a result we had to replace the entire rail said wr divisional manager mukul jain to repair the lifeline the wr administration had to bring a trackcutting machine at the site along with the material to drill holes to fix the joggle plate the disruption resulted in bunching and cancellation of services there was a huge rush at platforms as there were no trains for nearly 20 minutes said borivli resident parag jain several officegoers reached late to work due to the disruption it was difficult to board from malad as they were packed with by commuters who had boarded the train from malad said commuter rajan nair i had to let go of a couple of trains before i could make an attempt to board said commuter surekha naik said