19 August 2014

Longest Foot Over Bridge on Indian Railways inaugurated at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai on 18.8.2014

Longest Foot Over Bridge o­n Indian Railways inaugurated at CST Mumbai

A newly constructed longest foot over bridge o­n Indian Railways was inaugurated by Shri Arvind Sawant, Hon'ble Member of Parliament  at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai o­n 18.8.2014.  Shri Anil Desai, Hon'ble Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), Smt. Annie Shekhar, Hon'ble MLA, ​Shri Sunil Kumar Sood, General Manager, Central Railway, ​Shri Rakesh Saxena, Managing Director, Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation, Shri A.K. Mittal, Additional General Manager, Central Railway, Shri Mukesh Nigam, Divisional Railway Manager, Mumbai Division, Central Railway and other senior officials were present o­n the occasion.   ​

The new foot over bridge connects platform number 1 to 18 (platform number 1 to 7 o­n suburban and platform number 8 to 18 o­n main line) at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai. It is the longest foot over bridge o­n Indian Railways with a length of 364 meter (270 meter new FOB connecting 94 meter existing FOB) and a widh of 5.3 meter constructed at a cost of Rs.8.5 crore.  Passengers coming to and from Sir J.J. Flyover o­n the West side and P. D'Mello Road o­n the East side will be benefited immensely by this FOB.