A 100-metre steel bridge for the Mumbai–Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor was moved into position over National Highway 3 at Dive-Anjur village in Bhiwandi, Maharashtra. The September 28 operation completed the first steel bridge for the project in Maharashtra and was carried out during controlled night traffic blocks.
The structure weighs about 1,405 metric tonnes and was fabricated in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, roughly 1,300 kilometres from the installation site. It was assembled near the highway before the launch operation, illustrating the transport and on-site engineering required for a span of this scale.
The National High Speed Rail Corporation said 16 of the 28 steel bridges planned for the corridor have now been completed. In this context, ‘launched’ means the bridge span was placed over the highway; it does not mean passenger service has opened or that the full Mumbai–Ahmedabad corridor is complete.