The 104-year-old Patri Pul, which had come up in 1914 during World War I, was brought down on Sunday in five hours flat. Railway archives state the steel and cast iron parts required for the bridge had come all the way from England, and work had been done along with quadrupling the line.

Records show how the line from Bombay to Kalyan originally came up in 1854, and in 1914, upgrades started with four-tracking or quadrupling and construction of wider overbridges along the line.