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The Rajendra Setu was the first rail-cum-road bridge in independent India on the river Ganga, one of the major rivers in the country. This table presents the structures with spans greater than 120 metres (390 ft) (non-exhaustive list).
The Chenab Rail Bridge, the world's highest railway bridge, is a steel and concrete arch bridge carrying a single-track railway line, located between Bakkal and Kauri in the Reasi district of the Jammu Division of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Road-rail bridges in India (9 P) F. Former railway bridges in India (3 P) U. Railway bridges in Uttar Pradesh (4 P) W. Railway bridges in West Bengal (6 P)
Mahanadi Rail Bridge Mahanadi River: 2.1 1902- Rail Odisha: Cuttack [26] 31 Second Mahanadi Rail Bridge: Mahanadi River: 2.1 2008- Rail Odisha: Cuttack [26] 32 Pamban Bridge: Palk Strait: 2.07 1913- Rail Tamil Nadu: Mandapam-Rameswaram [27] 33 Sharavati Bridge: Sharavathi River: 2.06 1994 Rail Karnataka: Honnavar-Kasarkoda [10] 34 Baluaha Ghat ...
It was constructed in 1866 by the East India Railway at a cost of £1,616,335, [3] and has a total length of 2,640 feet (804.67 m) feet with 12 spans of 202.5 feet (61.72 m) each. [3] In the nineteenth century, two principal cities of North India, Kolkata and Delhi, were connected by railways, the bridge being the last link on this route. The ...
Vembanad Rail Bridge is a railway bridge over the Vembanad Lake in Kerala, India. With a total length of 4.62 km, it is the second longest railway bridge in India. It is part of the 8.86 km rail corridor between Edappally and Vallarpadam Terminal. [1] After a period of disuse, freight service was relaunched in January 2020. [2]
The bridge was by far the most expensive and the most difficult of the railway bridges to be constructed in India up to that time. The bridge was constructed at a total cost of ₹ 1.14 crore (equivalent to ₹ 348 crore or US$41 million in 2023) The first train that ran across the bridge was named Jagmal Raja Howrah Express by the British ...
Bridge memorial plaque. The bridge was constructed for the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. It was built by Braithwaite & Co. in association with the Hindustan Construction Company, who built the piers. The bridge was named in honour of the fat, silver jubilee of King-Emperor George V. Construction work began in 1933.