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As the railway authorities today completed, 85% work of dismantling #CarnacBridge in South Mumbai, dwelling a bit into its history. The bridge was built between 1866-67 & opened in 1868 for “Public Traffic”, according to the inscription on it.
It is an iron and masonry bridge which has been named after James Rivett Carnac, the Governor of the Bombay Presidency from the year 1839 to 1842. According to History of the Municipal Corporation of the City of Bombay by L. W. Michael (1902), the bridge was built (contd)
at the joint expense of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) and the Municipal Corporation. The bridge carried the #Carnac Road over the GIP Railway, connecting Crawford Market to the Prince’s Docks along the Carnac Road.
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