This weekend will be a crucial one for Central Railway’s busy rail network, as a 164-year-old bridge will be dismantled and a new one will be set up 16 km away. Seven girders of the Carnac Bunder bridge will come down while seven fresh ones will be installed in Thane.

By Monday morning, the antiquated bridge will have been removed in one go and new girders will be put in place at Kopri, Thane, for the other bridge in a section of the Eastern Express Highway (EEH). For Carnac Bunder, a special 27-hour special traffic and power block will be in place on November 19 and 20 in order to carry out dismantling work. A total of seven spans, crisscrossing above 10 lines will be pulled down with the help of three cranes with a 350-metric tonne capacity and one capable of lifting 500 metric tonnes.  Four hundred personnel, including 30-35 officers and 100 supervisors, have been deployed for the job.