New Delhi, May 4 -- The Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project has completed the installation of five heavy portal beams over active Indian Railways tracks at Maninagar in Ahmedabad within 22 days, marking a key engineering milestone.

According to an official release, all five precast-prestressed portal beams were launched over the Ahmedabad-Vadodara railway line in a phased manner on 8th, 13th, 19th, 24th and 29th April 2026, in close coordination with Indian Railways.

The operation involved the installation of beams weighing between 1170 metric tonnes and 1360 metric tonnes. The heaviest beam, weighing around 1360 metric tonnes, was launched on April 8, making it one of the heaviest lifts carried out on operational railway tracks in th...