For the first time, the railways plan to build a new 17.5 km rail corridor all the way to CSMT in south Mumbai. It has called for land acquisition and demolition of over 700 structures, railway buildings, rebuilding structures and even diverting the old harbour line to P D’Mello Road.
The development comes after quadrupling the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT)-Thane railway a century ago.
This project will boost the capacity of Central Railway by 100 per cent, boosting suburban rail traffic and completely segregating passenger trains between CSMT and Kalyan.
As part of the project, the first major thing to be taken up would be replacement of the Sion road overbridge (RoB). The bridge will be shut for traffic as it will need to be rebuilt to accommodate two new lines below it.
The project will be carried out in phases. Meanwhile, the process for the first phase has begun and is scheduled to be completed by 2024. However, the completion and deadline of the second phase depend on land acquisition and other changes that are under planning.
According to reports, the first phase of the 10.1-km Kurla-Parel stretch requires around 10,060.99 sq m of land, of which around 3,639.34 sq m is government land and 6,421.65 sq m is private land. Of this, around 2,656 sq m land has already been acquired.
The existing harbour line is likely to move away from its course towards the east and run parallel to P D’Mello Road to meet at CSMT’s platform no. 18.
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