India, May 12 -- The Central Railway (CR) will demolish platforms seven and eight at Kurla railway station and shift harbour line services to a temporary platform to facilitate the laying of two additional railway lines between Kurla and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT). Harbour line trains will eventually be accommodated on an elevated deck on which work has progressed well in the past six months, sources in CR told Hindustan Times.

"The existing harbour line platforms (numbers seven and eight) will be dismantled as the tracks be used for long-distance trains," said a CR official. "A temporary platform will be constructed for harbour line trains till the elevated deck is ready."

Presently, long distance trains are segregated...