{"id":385608,"date":"2020-11-23T08:59:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T03:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=385608"},"modified":"2020-11-23T09:54:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T04:24:46","slug":"150-plus-year-old-bridge-near-mumbai-to-be-brought-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/150-plus-year-old-bridge-near-mumbai-to-be-brought-down\/","title":{"rendered":"150-plus year old bridge near Mumbai to be brought down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A one-and-a-half-century-old railway bridge in the outskirts of Mumbai \u2013 that was decommissioned several years ago \u2013 is being demolished. <\/p>\n<p>The bridge connects Naigaon in Palghar district to Bhayander in Thane district \u2013 and goes over the tiny Panju Island.<\/p>\n<p>People travelling on the Western Railway (WR) mail\/express and suburban trains can see this bridge as they pass the Vasai creek.<\/p>\n<p>The original railway bridge built in the 1860s connecting the old Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway (BB&amp;CI), the forerunner of WR with Mumbai. <\/p>\n<p>The now 156-year-old bridge was decommissioned in 1983 after two new bridges were constructed almost parallel to the old ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A one-and-a-half-century-old railway bridge in the outskirts of Mumbai \u2013 that was decommissioned several years ago \u2013 is being demolished. The bridge connects Naigaon in Palghar district to Bhayander in Thane district \u2013 and goes over the tiny Panju Island. People travelling on the Western Railway (WR) mail\/express and suburban trains can see this bridge as they pass the Vasai creek. The original railway bridge built in the 1860s connecting the old Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway (BB&amp;CI), the forerunner of WR with Mumbai. The now 156-year-old bridge was decommissioned in 1983 after two new bridges were constructed almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}