Chenab Railway Bridge

India / Jammu and Kashmir / Reasi /
 arch, railway bridge, under construction
The Chenab Bridge, 359 m (1,178 ft) above river bed, will be the highest arch bridge in the world, and longest span for a BG rail line with arch span of 480 m (1,570 ft). This mega railway bridge is most complex link on Jammu Udhampur Srinagar Baramulla Railway Link.
The construction of the bridge started in 2002 when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the prime minister.It got stopped in 2008 when the project was announced to be unsafe. However, the construction restarted in 2010. It has been declared as a national project now.
Arguably one of the toughest engineering challenges in hand, Railways plans to complete the Chenab bridge in Jammu and Kashmir by 2016.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenab_Bridge
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Coordinates:   33°9'8"N   74°52'50"E
This article was last modified 9 years ago