To prevent cattle run-over incidents, the Western Railway (WR) has commenced work of erecting metal barriers along the more than 620-km-long Mumbai-Ahmedabad trunk route, its chief spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Sumit Thakur, chief spokesperson of WR, told PTI that the work of erecting metal beam fencing on the busy route has commenced on the Ankleshwar-Bharuch section under the Vadodara division and it is going on in full swing.