As slow as 10 metre per hour and 30 metre per night, the mega girder for the Delisle Road bridge was launched above the suburban rail network in Lower Parel while trains were operational, on Tuesday night.  The work on the second girder for the bridge in Lower Parel will begin post the monsoon season.

“Made in Kota, Rajasthan, it is one of the heaviest and longest girders on the Mumbai suburban railway. The 89.89-metre-long girder weighs 1,045 metric tonnes, and has a single span of 65-degree skew design. It was launched above constantly running trains in one of the most complicated operations,” a Western Railway official said.