Second Mahanadi Rail Bridge
The Second Mahanadi Rail Bridge is a rail bridge over the Mahanadi near Cuttack in the Indian state of Odisha.
Second Mahanadi Rail Bridge | |
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| Coordinates | 20°29′07″N 85°54′38″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 |
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The first Mahanadi Rail Bridge was opened on 1 January 1899. It had 64 spans of 100 feet (30.48 meters) each, on wells 19 ft 6 inches (5.94 meters) in diameter sunk to 60 ft (18.28 meters) 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 (1.3 miles) 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 (99.41 miles per hour). Adequate steps have been taken to withstand quake.[3]
References
- "East Coast Railway". Retrieved 6 July 2011.
- 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
- "Second rail bridge over Mahanadi commissioned". Chennai, India: The Hindu, 27 July 2008. 27 July 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
