Andheri Collapse

A preliminary report released by the Mumbai civic authority has held engineers who conducted a structural audit of the ill-fated foot overbridge near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus responsible for its collapse on Thursday evening. Six people were killed in the incident.

The collapse of the foot overbridge near Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus railway station is the latest accident that raises concerns over the city's stressed infrastructure. Soon after the Mumbai bridge collapse, which left 6 dead and 33 injured, a blame game erupted between Mumbai's civic body, the Brihanmumbai Corporation and the In...

The railways for the first time will allow third party audits of its bridges, a month after one of its road over bridges collapsed in Andheri in Mumbai injuring five, two of whom died later, a senior official of the ministry said.

Corrosion of steel brackets and piling of additional weight allowed by the Brihanumbai Municipal Corporation led to the partial collapse of a Road Over Bridge in Mumbai earlier this month, according to a railway probe report.

Western Railways has started inspecting bridges above its tracks as part of a safety audit that was ordered by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal following the collapse of a portion of a bridge at Andheri station on July 3.

Heavy rain has once again exposed the poor maintenance of railway footbridges in Mumbai. Another bridge at Ghatkopar station was closed after cracks developed on it on Sunday. This is the second time within a week cracks have developed on a railway foot over-bridge. On July 3, the southern end of the Andheri railway bridge collapsed, severely injur...

A 36-year-old woman, who was severely injured when the pathway of a bridge collapsed over the railway tracks at Andheri station, died today at RN Cooper Hospital, a civic official said.

Just a day before the collapse of a road over-bridge in Mumbai's Andheri, the railway board issued a letter to senior zonal engineers directing that all its bridges be inspected regularly till they are put to use, and not just after they are commissioned, as is the norm currently.

A day after an overbridge collapsed at a railway station in Mumbai's suburban Andheri area, the Western Railway restored its train services today, though the trains were running slightly late due to speed restrictions.

Trains cancelled/rescheduled: Due to Andheri bridge mishap, all local trains between Churchgate and Virar are running 10 to 15 minute behind schedule

A cracked road overbridge at Mumbai's Grant Road Station has been promptly closed by the city police in the wake of yesterday's bridge collapse at Andheri, in which five people were injured. The road overbridge is located in a busy area of Mumbai. Photographs from the spot show a deep, long crack running along the divider.

The 40-year-old Mumbai bridge that collapsed on Tuesday had cleared the railway's safety audit ordered after last year's stampede at Elphinstone railway station. This audit, conducted on 12 November 2017, did not report any "major abnormality" with the bridge", Piyush Goyal said after visiting the Gokhale bridge that had caved in early on Tuesday m...

Barely seven months after it was inspected for structural safety, the Gokhale over-bridge at Andheri railway station in Mumbai collapsed, prompting the Railway Ministry to order a probe into it.

The Mumbai civic body said it was the Railways' responsibility to regularly check and maintain the 47-year-old road overbridge in suburban Andheri a portion of which collapsed today, injuring five people.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said that civic governance had "collapsed" in Mumbai with the flooding of streets and the collapse of a part of a bridge at Andheri station.

A preliminary report released by the Mumbai civic authority has held engineers who conducted a structural audit of the ill-fated foot overbridge near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus responsible for its collapse on Thursday evening. Six people were killed in the incident.

The collapse of the foot overbridge near Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus railway station is the latest accident that raises concerns over the city's stressed infrastructure. Soon after the Mumbai bridge collapse, which left 6 dead and 33 injured, a blame game erupted between Mumbai's civic body, the Brihanmumbai Corporation and the In...

The railways for the first time will allow third party audits of its bridges, a month after one of its road over bridges collapsed in Andheri in Mumbai injuring five, two of whom died later, a senior official of the ministry said.

Corrosion of steel brackets and piling of additional weight allowed by the Brihanumbai Municipal Corporation led to the partial collapse of a Road Over Bridge in Mumbai earlier this month, according to a railway probe report.

Western Railways has started inspecting bridges above its tracks as part of a safety audit that was ordered by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal following the collapse of a portion of a bridge at Andheri station on July 3.

Heavy rain has once again exposed the poor maintenance of railway footbridges in Mumbai. Another bridge at Ghatkopar station was closed after cracks developed on it on Sunday. This is the second time within a week cracks have developed on a railway foot over-bridge. On July 3, the southern end of the Andheri railway bridge collapsed, severely injur...

A 36-year-old woman, who was severely injured when the pathway of a bridge collapsed over the railway tracks at Andheri station, died today at RN Cooper Hospital, a civic official said.

Just a day before the collapse of a road over-bridge in Mumbai's Andheri, the railway board issued a letter to senior zonal engineers directing that all its bridges be inspected regularly till they are put to use, and not just after they are commissioned, as is the norm currently.

A day after an overbridge collapsed at a railway station in Mumbai's suburban Andheri area, the Western Railway restored its train services today, though the trains were running slightly late due to speed restrictions.

Trains cancelled/rescheduled: Due to Andheri bridge mishap, all local trains between Churchgate and Virar are running 10 to 15 minute behind schedule

A cracked road overbridge at Mumbai's Grant Road Station has been promptly closed by the city police in the wake of yesterday's bridge collapse at Andheri, in which five people were injured. The road overbridge is located in a busy area of Mumbai. Photographs from the spot show a deep, long crack running along the divider.

The 40-year-old Mumbai bridge that collapsed on Tuesday had cleared the railway's safety audit ordered after last year's stampede at Elphinstone railway station. This audit, conducted on 12 November 2017, did not report any "major abnormality" with the bridge", Piyush Goyal said after visiting the Gokhale bridge that had caved in early on Tuesday m...

Barely seven months after it was inspected for structural safety, the Gokhale over-bridge at Andheri railway station in Mumbai collapsed, prompting the Railway Ministry to order a probe into it.

The Mumbai civic body said it was the Railways' responsibility to regularly check and maintain the 47-year-old road overbridge in suburban Andheri a portion of which collapsed today, injuring five people.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said that civic governance had "collapsed" in Mumbai with the flooding of streets and the collapse of a part of a bridge at Andheri station.