Nearly a century after it first began, the harbour line near Kurla is seeing a major change that was planned two years ago; its rail tracks have finally been realigned and shifted eastwards temporarily, for work on the new elevated station to proceed. The elevated station at Kurla will not only cater to regular traffic, but also have locals originating and terminating there.

It is a huge challenge to work, while keeping the city’s lifeline moving non-stop. To get going with the elevated station project at Kurla, we needed to use space used by the existing century old tracks. To keep the trains running, we built a new set of tracks temporarily for a small stretch, where all existing harbour line traffic will be diverted, and as work on the elevated corridor completes, the tracks will again be realigned to take the new bridge, which will have the harbour line elevated station,” a senior official said.