Mumbai's CST railway station to soon be converted into a rail museum

The museum plan may need clearances from MTDC, and Indian Railways is in the process of getting them, said an official

Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, which was elevated in 2004 to the status of a Unesco World Heritage Site, is set to be converted into one of the first museum-cum-railway stations in India portraying the 130-year-old history of one of the busiest stations of the world.

At least 13 companies have already submitted their expressions of interest (EoI) to design the first and ground floors of the CST station into a museum complex. The bids invited by Railway's subsidiary RITES got a response from top architectural conservation and building restoration companies, including Abha Narain Lambah Associates and Dronah group.

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