Elphinstone Bridge

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 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, serves as the headquarters of the Central Railways. Over seven crore passengers commute on nearly 2,500 trains every day on Mumbai's rail network, making it the lifeline of the city.

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...

The Railway Claims Tribunal, Mumbai, today awarded compensation to 36 victims, which included 17 death and 19 injury cases, of the Elphinstone foot overbridge stampede, the railways said on Tuesday.

Elphinstone foot overbridge at the Western Railways and two other foot overbridges at the Central line - Ambivali and Currey Road - were thrown open to public today. The three foot overbidges have been built by the Indian Army.

It was the end of an illustrious legacy yesterday. Once, the Indian Railways used to manufacture war tanks, hand grenades, shells, etc, in its workshops. Yesterday's decision by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal turned the tradition around. The Army's help has been sought to finish railways' job - building three foot overbridges, one each at Elphinston...

The Army will help build a new bridge at Mumbai's Elphinstone Road train station, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced today as union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal visited the site where 23 were killed in a rush hour stampede a month ago.

A parliamentary panel has summoned top railway officials over the recent spate of rail derailments and the Elphinstone Road Bridge stampede in Mumbai.

The Congress and the NCP slammed the MNS for forcibly evicting illegal hawkers from a railway bridge and claimed that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is "hand-in-gloves" with the Raj Thackeray-led party.

A woman passenger was injured at suburban Elphinstone Road railway station today when part of a tile of a Foot Overbridge (FoB) fell on her on head while she was entering the premises, an official said.

Rain and rumours have been blamed for the stampede at a Mumbai railway bridge that killed 23 people last month. But railway officials who took 18 months to call for bids to build the new foot over-bridge at Elphinstone station may not be off the hook yet.

The stampede at a Mumbai railway bridge that left 23 dead last month has been blamed on rain and rumours by a safety committee of the railway ministry, which does not refer to any official negligence.

The deadly stampede that killed 23 people and left over 30 injured in Mumbai on Friday may have been triggered by the most unfortunate of mix-ups. A flower vendor's cry of "phool gir gaya (flowers have fallen)" being mistaken as "pul gir gaya (the bridge has fallen)" might have caused the panic on a bridge linking two suburban train stations, a sur...

The day after 22 commuters died in a stampede at Mumbai's Elphinstone station bridge, Congress leader P Chidambaram scaled up the attack on the bullet train project, saying the high-speed train would, like demonetisation, "kill everything else including safety".

Friday's deadly stampede that killed 23 people in Mumbai, many found pressing against the railings, has spurred the government into action. Hours later, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal ordered officials to cut the red tape and start working on shorter deadlines. The minister also told them to identify critical locations prone to similar tragedies. T...

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 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, serves as the headquarters of the Central Railways. Over seven crore passengers commute on nearly 2,500 trains every day on Mumbai's rail network, making it the lifeline of the city.

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...

The Railway Claims Tribunal, Mumbai, today awarded compensation to 36 victims, which included 17 death and 19 injury cases, of the Elphinstone foot overbridge stampede, the railways said on Tuesday.

Elphinstone foot overbridge at the Western Railways and two other foot overbridges at the Central line - Ambivali and Currey Road - were thrown open to public today. The three foot overbidges have been built by the Indian Army.

It was the end of an illustrious legacy yesterday. Once, the Indian Railways used to manufacture war tanks, hand grenades, shells, etc, in its workshops. Yesterday's decision by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal turned the tradition around. The Army's help has been sought to finish railways' job - building three foot overbridges, one each at Elphinston...

The Army will help build a new bridge at Mumbai's Elphinstone Road train station, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced today as union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal visited the site where 23 were killed in a rush hour stampede a month ago.

A parliamentary panel has summoned top railway officials over the recent spate of rail derailments and the Elphinstone Road Bridge stampede in Mumbai.

The Congress and the NCP slammed the MNS for forcibly evicting illegal hawkers from a railway bridge and claimed that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is "hand-in-gloves" with the Raj Thackeray-led party.

A woman passenger was injured at suburban Elphinstone Road railway station today when part of a tile of a Foot Overbridge (FoB) fell on her on head while she was entering the premises, an official said.

Rain and rumours have been blamed for the stampede at a Mumbai railway bridge that killed 23 people last month. But railway officials who took 18 months to call for bids to build the new foot over-bridge at Elphinstone station may not be off the hook yet.

The stampede at a Mumbai railway bridge that left 23 dead last month has been blamed on rain and rumours by a safety committee of the railway ministry, which does not refer to any official negligence.

The deadly stampede that killed 23 people and left over 30 injured in Mumbai on Friday may have been triggered by the most unfortunate of mix-ups. A flower vendor's cry of "phool gir gaya (flowers have fallen)" being mistaken as "pul gir gaya (the bridge has fallen)" might have caused the panic on a bridge linking two suburban train stations, a sur...

The day after 22 commuters died in a stampede at Mumbai's Elphinstone station bridge, Congress leader P Chidambaram scaled up the attack on the bullet train project, saying the high-speed train would, like demonetisation, "kill everything else including safety".

Friday's deadly stampede that killed 23 people in Mumbai, many found pressing against the railings, has spurred the government into action. Hours later, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal ordered officials to cut the red tape and start working on shorter deadlines. The minister also told them to identify critical locations prone to similar tragedies. T...