List of bridges in India
Template:Short description This is a list of bridges in India.
Historical and architectural interest bridges
Major road and railway bridges
Template:See also The largest of all indian's railway bridges is the Chenab Bridge, located on the Jammu–Baramulla line that connects the Jammu region and the Kashmir Valley, which turned out to be the most expensive line of Indian's railway network. The Chenab Bridge was the highest arch bridge in the world when opening in 2022 with a deck Template:Convert above the Chenab River, it's still the highest railway bridge on earth nowadays.[1][2]
Extradosed bridges have experienced remarkable growth in India since the 2010s with a large number of multi-span bridges built on rivers such as the Ganges, which has significant widths in certain places. Their advantages are as follows:
- They allow longer spans than conventional beam bridges and therefore a reduced number of foundations.
- The thickness of the deck is considerably reduced (the Arrah–Chhapra bridge deck is Template:Convert thick), thereby minimizing the amount of concrete.
- They can be made up of precast segments even for medium spans and then be erected much more quickly and easily than the typical in-situ concrete construction.
- A more elegant aesthetic appearance than conventional beam bridges.[3]
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 Template:Convert, which was among the longest in its category at the time. Additionally it had one of the largest numbers of spans at the time. Another main feature of the bridge is its Template:Convert width with 6 road lanes for a single plane axial suspension.[4]
The Arrah–Chhapra Bridge held the record for the longest total extradosed span length in the world when it was inaugurated in 2017, with 16 pylons and Template:Convert, surpassing the well-known Template:Interlanguage link in Japan.[3] This record will be largely beaten by the new Kacchi Dargah–Bidupur Bridge under construction with 66 pylons and an extradose length of Template:Convert.[5]
The Rajendra Setu was the first rail-cum-road bridge in independent India on the river Ganga, one of the major rivers in the country.
This table presents the structures with spans greater than Template:Convert (non-exhaustive list). Template:Row indexer
Planned bridges
Alphabetical list
See also
- Transport in India
- Highways in India
- List of national highways in India
- Rail transport in India
- Geography of India
- List of rivers of India
- List of longest bridges above water in India
- List of longest bridges in West Bengal
- Bridges in Bihar
- List of bridges in Srinagar
- List of bridges on Brahmaputra River
Notes and references
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Further reading
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