India’s most ambitious Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) project on Sunday morning reached Mumbai suburban railway lines at Kopar station, with a massive girder to ferry double decker freight trains placed over local train lines. This is part of the western DFC project.

“We operated a special traffic and power block, to launch the first open web girders for Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation India Ltd’s bridge parallel to the existing Central Railway bridge between Kopar and Thakurli stations on Saturday/Sunday from 1.35 am to 5.05 am,” an official said.