One of the key rail engineers of Western Railway (WR) Gopalrao W Kulkarni passed away on Sunday. He was 88. Kulkarni was credited for completing Churchgate - Mumbai Central quadrupling project in the 1970s and also of planning and executing the raising of Charni Road’s Frere Bridge among other works across several divisions of Western Railway.

“My father passed away on Sunday at Goregaon due to heart failure. He was 88-year-old,” his son Vinay Kulkarni told Mid-Day.