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The Howrah Bridge is a balanced steel bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. Commissioned in 1943, [ 9 ] [ 11 ] the bridge was originally named the New Howrah Bridge, because it replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location linking the twin cities of Howrah and Kolkata , which are located at the opposite banks of each other.
Two-way with 3 general-purpose lanes in each direction. Vidyasagar Setu, also known as the Second Hooghly Bridge, is a 822.96 meter long cable-stayed 6 laned toll bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India, linking the cities of Kolkata and Howrah. Opened in 1992, with a total length of 823 metres (2,700 ft), Vidyasagar Setu was the ...
1926. Construction end. 1931. Opened. 29 December 1931; 92 years ago (1931-12-29) Location. Vivekananda Setu (also called Willingdon Bridge and Bally Bridge) is a bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. It links the city of Howrah, at Bally, to Kolkata, at Dakshineswar. Completed in 1931, it is a multispan truss bridge that was ...
Kolkata–Howrah: Kolaghat Rail Bridge [8] Rupnarayan River: 804 2,638 1900 Rail Kolaghat–Deulti: Mejia Bridge [12] [13] Damodar River: 800 2,625 1996 Rail-cum-road Raniganj–Mejia: Chapaguri Rail Bridge [5] Torsha River: 777 2,550 2015 Rail Chapaguri (Cooch Behar) Howrah Bridge (Rabindra Setu) [14] Hooghly River: 705 2,313 1943: Road ...
Howrah Bridge. (1958 film) Howrah Bridge is a 1958 Indian Hindi -language crime thriller film directed by Shakti Samanta. The music for the film was composed by O. P. Nayyar. The plot focuses on Prem Kumar (played by Ashok Kumar), a businessman from Rangoon, who travels to Calcutta to try and track down his brother's murderers.
Opened. July 2007. Location. Nivedita Setu (also called Second Vivekananda Setu) is a multi-span extradosed bridge that was built over Hooghly River connecting Howrah with Kolkata, West Bengal. It runs parallel to and about 50 m downstream of the old Vivekananda Setu opened in 1932. The bridge is named after Sister Nivedita, the social worker ...
The Bandra–Worli Sea Link (officially known as Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link[1]) is a 5.6 km long, 8- lane wide cable-stayed bridge that links Bandra in the Western Suburbs of Mumbai with Worli in South Mumbai. It is the second longest sea bridge after Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, as well as the 5th longest bridge in India after Mumbai Trans Harbour ...
The first major extradosed bridge built in India is the Second Vivekananda Bridge between Howrah and Kolkata. It has 8 pylons and a suspended length of 880 m (2,890 ft), which was among the longest in its category at the time. Additionally it had one of the largest numbers of spans at the time.