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
Coordinates20°29′07″N 85°54′38″E
CarriesKharagpur-Puri line, Howrah-Chennai main line
CrossesMahanadi River
LocaleCuttack
Characteristics
Total length2,100 metres (6,900 ft)
History
Opened2008
Location

The first Mahanadi Rail Bridge was opened on 1 January 1899. It had 64 spans of 100 feet (30 meters) each, on wells 19 ft 6 in (5.94 meters) in diameter sunk to 60 ft (18 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 mi) long Second Mahanadi Rail Bridge built at a cost of ₹120 crore (US$15 million) 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]

See also

References
  1. "East Coast Railway". Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  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". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 27 July 2008. Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
External video
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