The Western Railway on Sunday completed launching the second and final girder of the Lower Parel bridge, also known as the Delisle Road bridge. WR’s chief public relations officer Sumit Thakur said the work was finished in a record period of less than 3 months. The Delisle Road bridge has been an important link between Lower Parel, Currey Road, Worli Naka in the west and Lalbaug and Byculla in the east.

“This was the longest [90 metre] and weighing about 1045 MT girder with single span 65-degree skew ever launched in Western Railway. Launching of the first girder was completed on June 22, 2022. The launching of the second OWG [open web girder] of Delisle ROB began on September 15, 2022, and was completed during available marginal traffic and power block only, without any major traffic repercussions,” said the senior railway official.