Second Mahanadi Rail Bridge | |
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Coordinates | 20°29′07″N85°54′38″E / 20.4852°N 85.9105°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 Second Mahanadi Rail Bridge is a rail bridge over the Mahanadi near Cuttack in the Indian state of Odisha.
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]
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