India, Feb. 7 -- The Western Railway (WR) has revived a decade-old plan to demolish the railway bridge that carries local trains between Bandra and Khar stations, to rebuild a new one that would accommodate two additional railway lines on the Santacruz-Mumbai Central corridor.

These additional pairs of tracks, the fifth and sixth lines, would separate suburban and long-distance trains, greatly improving services. The pain point, though, is a shutdown of the Bandra-Goregaon Harbour Line for at least three months, forcing trains to temporarily terminate at Bandra and impacting lakhs of commuters.

Earlier last month, railway engineers visited the site to inspect the bridge. Time had left its imprint on the half-constructed pillars of the n...