MUMBAI: A bit of over two weeks after the pedestrian portion of Andheri’s Gokhale street over-bridge (ROB) collapsed, bringing Western Railway’s suburban services and products to a grinding halt for for just about an afternoon, an iron bar used to be found dangling from a BMC pipeline working adjacent to the ROB on Thursday afternoon.
As the bar used to be striking very just about the overhead wires of suburban trains, the Western Railway, as a precautionary measure, suspended speedy services and products for half an hour. The dangling bar used to be removed, and a rope used to be used to carry speedy any other phase as a brief measure.
Hundreds of commuters have been badly hit by way of the suspension of services and products—while many have been stranded in trains, others on crowded platforms. Several passengers who have been in a teach that had halted on the track just a little ahead of Andheri station, jumped out and and began strolling alongside the tracks.
A railway official mentioned the iron bar on the north facet of the bridge—the pedestrian portion that crashed used to be on south facet—used to be detected by way of a staff that used to be on the spot for a security audit. The official mentioned the iron bar can have are available in touch with the wires, leading to “problems” and affecting services and products. “But this used to be prevented as it used to be taken out on time,” he mentioned. A senior WR official later mentioned the bar used to be now not dangling from the Gokhale bridge which is maintained by way of the railways, however “on the BMC pipeline bridge”.
Train services and products have been suspended on the Up speedy track from 12.25 pm. The Up speedy trains have been diverted from Goregaon and Down speedy trains have been diverted from Santacruz station.
A passenger mentioned, “Trains have been working late and then there used to be bunching of a few trains. This caused additional delays.” A railway official alternatively mentioned the block used to be during "non-peak hours" so now not many commuters have been affected.
As the bar used to be striking very just about the overhead wires of suburban trains, the Western Railway, as a precautionary measure, suspended speedy services and products for half an hour. The dangling bar used to be removed, and a rope used to be used to carry speedy any other phase as a brief measure.
Hundreds of commuters have been badly hit by way of the suspension of services and products—while many have been stranded in trains, others on crowded platforms. Several passengers who have been in a teach that had halted on the track just a little ahead of Andheri station, jumped out and and began strolling alongside the tracks.
A railway official mentioned the iron bar on the north facet of the bridge—the pedestrian portion that crashed used to be on south facet—used to be detected by way of a staff that used to be on the spot for a security audit. The official mentioned the iron bar can have are available in touch with the wires, leading to “problems” and affecting services and products. “But this used to be prevented as it used to be taken out on time,” he mentioned. A senior WR official later mentioned the bar used to be now not dangling from the Gokhale bridge which is maintained by way of the railways, however “on the BMC pipeline bridge”.
Train services and products have been suspended on the Up speedy track from 12.25 pm. The Up speedy trains have been diverted from Goregaon and Down speedy trains have been diverted from Santacruz station.
A passenger mentioned, “Trains have been working late and then there used to be bunching of a few trains. This caused additional delays.” A railway official alternatively mentioned the block used to be during "non-peak hours" so now not many commuters have been affected.
Iron bar dangling from bridge stops WR services
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