Whenever we take a ride on an intra-city rail line, we’re bound to see the line’s carshed or depot somewhere. If you take the Western Line, you might see the car shed at Mumbai Central or Kandivali, and on the Central Line at Kurla. If you take the Mumbai Metro, you’ll see its depot at Four Bungalows, and if you take the Monorail, you’ll see it at Wadala. There’s a high likelihood that saying Wadala Depot might confuse a lot of people. For it might be referring to BEST’s Wadala Depot that is located at Wadala (West) and is closer to Dadar, or BEST’s Anik and Pratiksha Nagar Depots that are located in Wadala East near the Salt Pans. Or, it could refer to the Monorail Depot.
So, without much further ado, here is the picture of the Monorail Depot:
This amazing drone shot has been taken by a drone-based media agency called BrainWing India. Don’t forget to follow them on Instagram: @brainwing_india.
Apart from the Monorail Depot, you can also see the Lodha New Cuffe Parade apartment complex behind it.
It is important to note that the Monorail depot only houses the first building with a wavy blue roof behind the station and the blue building behind that.
So what are all the other blue sheds and structures in the vicinity? Most of them are casting yards used by various contractors for the Mumbai Metro project.
The first one, at the top left-hand-side corner where the monorail track curves is a casting yard for tunnel rings for Mumbai Metro Line 3 operated by Turkey-based Doğuş and its Hyderabad-based partner Soma. The large blue shed next to the Monorail Depot is used by Tata Projects for the same. L&T and Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) use casting yards at the far end of this picture for casting tunnel rings.
Immediately next to the depot is the Nagarjuna Construction Company’s (NCC) casting yard for casting U-girders for the Metro’s Line 7 and next to it is the casting yard for J Kumar and on top of the that is the casting yard that Simplex used to use for Line 2.
For a better reference, see this tweet by Sahil Pednekar.
The monorail makes for a gorgeous sight from above, no?
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Featured Image: Mumbai Monorail Depot by Ashwin Kumar on Flickr.
So many infra related pics in one pic! 😍
I swear. In fact, if you check the site on Google Earth in 2010-2012. you’ll find the casting yard for the Monorail and Mumbai Metro Line 1 there.