Second Mahanadi Rail Bridge

Second Mahanadi Rail Bridge
Coordinates 20°29′07″N 85°54′38″E / 20.4852°N 85.9105°E
Carries Kharagpur-Puri line, Howrah-Chennai main line
Crosses Mahanadi River
Locale Cuttack
Characteristics
Total length 2,100 metres (6,900 ft)
History
Opened 2008

Second Mahanadi Rail Bridge is a rail bridge over the Mahanadi near Cuttack in the Indian state of Odisha.

The first Mahanadi Rail Bridge was opened on 1 January 1899. It had 64 spans of 100 feet each, on wells 19 ft 6 in. in diameter sunk to 60 ft below low water level.[1] The Engineer in Charge of construction of the first Mahanadi Rail Bridge was William Beckett, who won a gold medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1901, for a paper he presented on the bridge construction.[2]

The 2.1 km long Second Mahanadi Rail Bridge built at a cost of Rs. 120 crore was commissioned in 2008. The bridge has been designed for a train speed of 160 km per hour. Adequate steps have been taken to withstand quake.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "East Coast Railway". Retrieved 2011-07-06.
  2. ↑ The Bridges over the Orissa Rivers on the East Coast Extension of the Bengal – Nagpur Railway, W. T. C. Beckett, M. Inst. C.E., Paper No. 3250, 1901
  3. ↑ "Second rail bridge over Mahanadi commissioned". Chennai, India: The Hindu, 27 July 2008. 27 July 2008. Retrieved 2011-07-06.

External links

External video
Video of a train passing over the Mahanadi Bridge