Progress update on the excavation of the Mumbai bullet train station, the details of the platform, the construction of the tunnel and the completion of the NHSRCL viaduct. | Photo credit: Reuters
About 75 percent of the excavation work to build the solitary underground station in the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet trains has been completed at the project site in Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai, National High Speed Corporation LTD.
Detailing the project progress, NHSRCL officials said that a total of 18.72 LAKH of cubic movement of earth movement is required, to build the Mumbai bullet train station that will have a total depth of the 32 -meter structure, it is multistoted equivalent. Around 14 Lakh of cubic meters of the Earth have already been excavated at the project site in BKC.
The BKC Bullet Train platform is placed at a depth of approximately 24 meters from the ground level. There will be three floors that include platform, contest and service floor. The station will have six platforms and the length of each platform will be approximately 415 meters, enough to house a 16 -training bullet train. This station will have two entrance and exit points. One facilitation of facilitation to the nearby Metro station that is part of the Metro 2B line and the other opening will be towards the MTNL building.
The base slab of the Mumbai bullet train station, which will form the construction level of the dependent, is currently being screened and required more than 2 LAKH of concrete cubic meters that are poured as part of the foundry of base lava. Until now, 25000 cubic meters of concrete leg Hasb Vetida, said NHSRCL. Each foundry of the base slab requests 3000-4000 cubic or concrete meters at controlled temperatures, which is being produced by three lots of lots and coolers in situ.
NHSRCL also said that the work in the three high stations in Maharashtra — Thane, Vinar and Boisar — have also begun. There are a total of 12 stations on the route 508 kilometers long between Mumbai and Ahmedabad. The work of a 21 -kilometer long tunnel between BKC and Shilphat in Maharashtra is also under construction. Seven mountain tunnels have also been completed are also being built in Palghar and structural work has been completed in six of the eight stations in Gujarat.
As of April 18, 2025, 293 kilometers or viaduct construction have been completed, Must or Gujarat. Currently, the installation of noise barriers in the viaduct is underway in Gujarat, where 3 Lakh of them have been installed in 150 kilometers of stretching. A total of 143 kilometers has been achieved or the construction of the road bed in Gujarat and the welding of rails in the viaduct to form long panels or 200 meters in length is also underway. More than 100 higher equipment (OHE) have also been installed between the Surat and Bilimora Bullet Train Stations, the section in Gujarat where the bullet train is expected to work first.
Posted on April 21, 2025