Come winters and we experience several delays in long-distance trains. The weather conditions causing fog in the atmosphere is mainly responsible for the trains running late. But Northern Railways recently did such an efficient teamwork of constructing a bridge in just seven hours! This construction was a part of replacing the 100-year old bridges on the Saharanpur-Lucknow route. This new bridge replaced the bridge no. 1218 near Bundki station.

Some of the bridges are in weak and dilapidated conditions, restricting the speed of the railway trains, which too caused delays. Similar was the old bridge between Nazibabad and Moradabad. The superintendent engineer, Paritosh Gautam reach the spot with his team on January 3, around 9.35 am and started work. The old debris was dismantled and removed by afternoon and a new construction plan was fully laid out by 3.05 pm. From then it was just about two hours and the team had finished the complete construction! While the work was going on, some trains had to be waited and diverted along the route to Moradabad stations.

In exactly 7 hours 20 minutes the old bridge was replaced with the new construction and Link Express traveling from Dehradun to Allahabad was the first one to use it. Since it was very new, the train passed slowly but later on a lot of trains happened to use that bridge swiftly.

About 70 workers were involved in this construction process and we think it is highly commendable of this achievement. In times of our easy blaming the authorities for everything, this exemplary teamwork is something every other department should look up to. Vishwesh Chaubey, General Manager, Northern Railways said, “With this, the Northern Railway has replaced four old bridges on Saharanpur-Lucknow route, and three more bridges will be replaced in next one month.” Well, if all goes as planned we will soon have more swift services from Northern Railways.

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Jan 09, 2018 11:45 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).