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Central Railway

Press Release

Mumbai Division carried out important infrastructure work of FOBs and ROBs during lockdown and unlock

Mumbai Division of  Central Railway has completed important infrastructure work during the lockdown and unlock period. The amount of work it has done at 45 locations would have required many traffic blocks and impact o­n some trains running during normal period.

New foot over bridges (4 nos)

The work of new  foot over bridges (FOB) at 4 locations viz. Kurla-Sion (Swadeshi Mill), Dombivali, Thakurli and Titwala.

Dismantling of old Foot over bridges (5 nos)

The work of dismantling of distressed 2 steel spans of Foot Over Bridge  at Vadala Road, o­ne span of FOB at Ambarnath, o­ne span at Ambivli, 2 spans at Atgaon,  two spans of more than 100-year-old FOB at Vasind railway station were carried out.

Major Repairing work of Foot over bridges

The repairing work of 32 foot over bridges at 28 stations ie CSMT, Sandhurst Road, Byculla (2), Parel, Dadar, Sion, Mulund (2), Thane, Kalva(2), King's Circle(2), Panvel (2), Ulhasnagar, Badlapur, Khadavali, Vasind, Asangaon, Igatpuri, Bhiwandi Road, Khaman Road, Kharbav, Juchandra, Nilje, Dativali, Taloja, Kalamboli, Chauk and Mohope were carried out successfully.

Repairing of Road Over Bridges

Repairing of road over bridges Khardi, Umbermali, Shilphata and British era Waldhuni Road over bridge at Kalyan completed successfully.

Recently, a new steel ‘Open Web Girder' for Patripul Road Over Bridge was launched successfully across busy railway tracks. The Patripul Road Over Bridge, built in 1914 between Kalyan and Dombivli, which was dismantled sometime back.

Optimum utilisation of manpower during lockdown, effective utilisation of limited resources and machinery and duly observing norms of  COVID19 all above work carried out successfully.

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December 03, 2020

PR No.2020/12/09

This press release is issued by the Public Relations Department, Central Railway, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Mumbai