Overview

• Engineers assembled and launched a 45-metre, 1,200-tonne span over the Girdhar Nagar railway overbridge in Ahmedabad on September 15 using the Span-by-Span method.
• Nineteen precast segments formed the viaduct span, which runs parallel to the Western Railway’s Delhi–Ahmedabad main line.
• NHSRCL completed the operation within a 12-day block ending September 20 with traffic safety measures including barricading, diversion signages, marshals and night lighting.
• Project-wide progress now stands at 323 km of viaduct and 399 km of pier work completed on the 508 km corridor, with more than 400,000 noise barriers installed along 210 km.
• In Ahmedabad district the line crosses 31 rail, road and water structures with work finished on 15, while officials project initial services in 2027, Thane–Ahmedabad commissioning in 2028 and full Mumbai–Ahmedabad operations in 2029, offering about 2 hours 7 minutes end-to-end and roughly 1 hour Mumbai–Surat.