This morning fafter increase in rain, a section of a bridge at Mumbai’s Andheri station collapsed. So far as per reports, 5 people are injured in the incident. Luckily no casualties are reported. The bridge which collapsed is said to be Gokhale Bridge, which connects East and West Andheri stations. Each day the bridge is used by thousands of people. But fortunately not many got injured neither any loss of life was reported.

Which part of the bridge collapse?

As per reports, which is on the southern end of Andheri station between platform numbers 7-8, crashed around 7.30 am, ripping off overhead wires which were left on the tracks.

Resulting to which the traffic on the bridge is stopped. And the trains which is heart of India’s financial capital is effected. In Mumbai trains are the most important way of transportation, and a halt on the trains means halt on the city.

The routes of some local trains on other lines have been extended to clear the spillover at Ghatkopar station, officials said. Local trains are running between Churchgate (in south Mumbai) and Bandra (in the western suburbs), and between Virar (located in neighbouring Palghar district) and Goregaon (western suburb), a Railways official told news agency Press Trust of India.

Operation at Harbor line section is restored, which ran its first train at 2:19Pm aftet the collapse of the bridge.
Railways minister Piyush Goyal had earlier tweeted saying railway officials were working towards restoring harbour line operations by 2 pm.

The bridge collapse has damaged platform roof, blocked railway line and damaged high tension electric wire. According to reports, a team if engineers are working on the site, to restore the services.

“A part of the foot overbridge has collapsed which has halted our up and down services of Western Railway. Our officers have reached to the spot and accessing the situation,” said Western Railway spokesperson Ravinder Bhakar.
“Thankfully, no train was passing beneath the track,” he added.

While we are glad that the collapse of the bridge didn’t resulted in any casualties, we certainly hope that the services are restored as soon as possible.