Friday, May 12, 2006
INDIAN RAILWAYS-2
hi people,
hope you enjoyed my previous postings, feel free to comment about it!
Last time i was telling you people about the blue mountain.
This time i am moving into the bridges in India.
Indian Railways has thousnads of bridges running in its network.
There are bridges on all prominent rivers like GANGA,BRAHMAPUTRA,GODAVARI etc. etc.
The longest bridge in india is on the river GODAVARI with a distance of about 5 kilometers.
The Nehru Setu bridge near Dehri on the river Sone (3.065km, 93 spans, each 30.5m).
The bridge over the Ganga near Patna (~2km).
The Narnarayan Setu bridge over the Brahmaputra at Jogighopa linking it to Pancharatna (in Assam) has 18 spans, each about 120m, with 2 spans of 30.5m, for a total length of 2.3km.
THE TALLEST BRIDGE:-
The bridge on the Panval river (Konkan Railway, Ratnagiri district). The 420m-long bridge was the first one built in India using the incremental launching technique and is 64m tall.
cath you later,
hope you enjoyed reading it.
hope you enjoyed my previous postings, feel free to comment about it!
Last time i was telling you people about the blue mountain.
This time i am moving into the bridges in India.
Indian Railways has thousnads of bridges running in its network.
There are bridges on all prominent rivers like GANGA,BRAHMAPUTRA,GODAVARI etc. etc.
The longest bridge in india is on the river GODAVARI with a distance of about 5 kilometers.
The Nehru Setu bridge near Dehri on the river Sone (3.065km, 93 spans, each 30.5m).
The bridge over the Ganga near Patna (~2km).
The Narnarayan Setu bridge over the Brahmaputra at Jogighopa linking it to Pancharatna (in Assam) has 18 spans, each about 120m, with 2 spans of 30.5m, for a total length of 2.3km.
THE TALLEST BRIDGE:-
The bridge on the Panval river (Konkan Railway, Ratnagiri district). The 420m-long bridge was the first one built in India using the incremental launching technique and is 64m tall.
cath you later,
hope you enjoyed reading it.
