Central Rly completed 23 FOBs during lockdown

Nagpur: In addition to running freight trains to keep essential supplies flowing, and running select special passenger trains across the country, the Central Railway has completed important infrastructure works utilizing lockdown announced in last week of March 2020.
“The amount of works it has done would have required many traffic blocks and impacted trains running during normal period. Work at 23 locations over Central Railway for launching of steel girders for 14 foot over bridges (FOBs) and dismantling distressed steel structures of 9 FOBs was carried out since lockdown,” said chief public relations officer (CPRO) Shivaji Sutar.
Out of these 23 important infrastructures works in five divisions, 7 were in Mumbai, 10 in Bhusawal, one each in Nagpur and Solapur, and 3 in Pune and one by the construction wing.
In Mumbai, 6-metre-wide girders for FOB at Dombivli station and 3.66-metre-wide midsection FOB near Belapur station were launched. Besides, two distressed steel spans of FOB were dismantled at Wadala, one span of FOB each at Ambarnath and Ambivli, and 2 spans of FOB at Atgaon. Two spans of more than 100-year-old FOB at Vashind railway station were dismantled.
In Nagpur division, 6-metre-wide FOB girders having 6 spans crossing 16 railway tracks were launched at Wardha station. Similarly, at Bhusawal station girder launching was done to replace old FOB with a new 4.88-metre FOB.
Launching of girders of 3.66-metre-wide FOB at Bodwad station on Bhusawal-Badnera section and one FOB at New Amravati in Badnera-Narkhed section was also done.
Launching of girders for replacement of old FOB by 6-metre-wide FoB at Akola station was taken up along with launching of girders at Chandur Bazaar (Amravati) and Nandura station on Bhusawal-Badnera section.
Officials said dismantling of old corrugated steel structures of distressed FOBs at Bhusawal, Nashik Road and Shegaon stations was taken up.
In Solapur division, launching of 6-metre-wide FOB girder was done at Daund, Kadethan and Chinchwad stations. Besides, dismantling of two spans of FOB at Talegaon station in Pune division was completed.
“Optimum utilization of manpower during lockdown, effective utilization of limited resources and machinery and duly observing norms mandated for Covid-19 was done during execution of above works,” said Sutar.