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The Howrah Bridge is a balanced steel bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. Commissioned in 1943, [ 9 ] [ 11 ] the bridge was originally named the New Howrah Bridge, because it replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location linking the twin cities of Howrah and Kolkata , located on opposite banks.
Kolkata–Howrah: Kolaghat Rail Bridge [8] Rupnarayan River: 804 2,638 1900 Rail Kolaghat–Deulti: Mejia Bridge [12] [13] Damodar River: 800 2,625 1996 Rail-cum-road Raniganj–Mejia: Chapaguri Rail Bridge [5] Torsha River: 777 2,550 2015 Rail Chapaguri (Cooch Behar) Howrah Bridge (Rabindra Setu) [14] Hooghly River: 705 2,313 1943: Road ...
Second Mahanadi Rail Bridge: Mahanadi River: 2.1 2008- Rail Odisha: Cuttack [26] 32 Pamban Bridge: Palk Strait: 2.07 1913- Rail Tamil Nadu: Mandapam-Rameswaram [27] 33 Sharavati Bridge: Sharavathi River: 2.06 1994 Rail Karnataka: Honnavar-Kasarkoda [10] 34 Baluaha Ghat Bridge Kosi River: 2.05 2015- Road Bihar: Baluaha Ghat-Gandaul [28] 35 Arwal ...
The famous Dakshineswar Kali Temple is situated on the banks of the Hooghly River near the bridge. [3] The bridge is one of the four bridges linking Howrah and Kolkata. A new road bridge, the Nivedita Setu, was constructed 50 m (160 ft) downstream in 2007 due to weakening of the Vivekanada Setu caused by its ageing. [3] [4]
A ferry operating between Howrah and Kolkata with Howrah Bridge (Rabindra Setu) in background The Bhāgirathi-Hooghly river system is an essential lifeline for the people of West Bengal. It was through this river that the East India company sailed into Bengal and established their trade settlement, Calcutta, the capital of British India.
The total road length in Howrah is approximately 300 km (190 miles). [49] Howrah hosts a branch of the Grand Trunk Road – this was built, starting 1804, by the Public Works Department of the British administration. [50] The road starts at the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden [51] and connects to the main road near ...
Vidyasagar Setu, also known as the Second Hooghly Bridge, is an 822.96-metre-long (2,700 ft) cable-stayed six-laned toll bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India, linking the cities of Kolkata and Howrah.
Indian Railways propose to lay a new line connecting Sealdah and Haldia, with the distance being shorter by 70 km than the Howrah–Haldia track. [15] There is a plan to connect Digha to Jaleswar on the Kharagpur–Puri line. [16] The Howrah–Kharagpur stretch has three lines. [17]