Navi Mumbai Metro’s Steel Bridge Design Approved by Indian Railways
This is big news for Navi Mumbai. After several rounds of design submissions & rejections over the course of 3 years, the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) has finally received an approval from the Central Railways Zone of the Indian Railways for constructing a steel bridge over the Diva-Panvel railway line’s tracks. This roughly 100 meter bridge will connect Sector 34 and Panchanand stations of the 11.10 km Line-1, and without it, metro trains wouldn’t have been able to reach or serve 90% of the line.
As per SR Darade, Chief Engineer of Special Projects at CIDCO:
We have received the approval to construct the bridge over the Diva-Panvel line of the Central Railway. Construction work will start soon. The design submitted by CIDCO has now been approved by the CR, paving the way for fast completion of the project. As the section is busy and used by a number of trains (example Rajdhani Express to Delhi), CR ensured that the design and quality of the bridge is strong and technically sound.
Satellite imagery of the site:
Steel bridge’s location – view Navi Mumbai Metro map & info
With this fantastic development, it’ll take at least another 9 months for the bridge’s parts to be fabricated, tested and moved on-site following which I expect it to be launched in 2018. Now only 1 major hurdle stands in the project’s way at Belapur-Kharghar where some high-tension wires need to either be moved or have their height extended. Hopefully that is resolved soon as well.
For more updates, check out the Navi Mumbai section of The Metro Rail Guy!
– TMRG
High tension wire height has been worked upon in last month. They have increased the height and work on viaduct section is in progress
That’s awesome. If possible, can you share a site image to confirm? You can reach out to me using the Contact Me page.
This project is being timed to open before 2019 elections. I guarantee it.
Its 2020, Still in progress
Hi TMRG,
Any updates on this project, particularly now that the extension of this line will connect the new airport coming up at Navi Mumbai?
Thanks
Lots of plans out there to connect NMIA, but I haven’t seen any serious local (CIDCO) proposal. I know DMRC is working on preparing a CSIA-NMIA line’s DPR but that’s about it.
Can we have more information to this link below? No details apart from mention of Lines 2, 3 & 4!!
https://cidco.maharashtra.gov.in/navi_mumbai_metro
Hi, there hasn’t been any movement on the development of the other lines, so that info in the link is all I’m aware of at this time.
Their line numbering and development plan is quite strange. Lines 1-4 will actually be just one single line, but developed in 4 stages. Not sure why they had to give them separate numbers. They first want to build 2 stand-alone lines (Line-1, Line-2) and then connect them via the 3.87 km Line-3 section. Makes no sense whatsoever.