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The Lansdowne Bridge (Sindhi لينسڊائون پل; Urdu: لینس ڈاؤن پل) over the Indus at Sukkur was one of the great engineering feats of the 19th century. The longest cantilever bridge ever built, it had to support the load of heavy steam locomotives. The bridge was inaugurated on 25 March 1889.
On the Barket Market side, with three of the four bridges, double U-turns are facilitated. The bridges are on spread footing with precast prestressed concrete girders. Service roads and slip roads have been provided at grade. A sump pump was installed on the Liberty-side ramp to prevent rain water from flooding the area of the underpass.
The region around Sukkur has been inhabited for millennia. The ruins of Lakhan-jo-daro, located near an industrial park on the outskirts of Sukkur, [8] date from the Mature Harappan period of the Indus Valley Civilization, between 2600 BCE and 1900 BCE covers more than 300 Hectares of area and is touted to be second largest city of the Indus Valley Civilization just 75 Kilometers away from ...
Habba Kadal (Urdu pronunciation: [ɦəbbɑː kəd̪əl] ; Kashmiri pronunciation: [habɨ kədɨl]) is a wooden bridge located in the old city of Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, India that crosses the Jhelum river.
Kotri Bridge. It has single railway track and roads on either side of railway track. In the early 1980s another railway bridge, known as Mehran Railway Bridge, was constructed alongside the old bridge. Kotri Bridge is still in use for one-way railway and two-way road traffic. [4]
Animation showing the operation of a drawbridge. A drawbridge or draw-bridge is a type of moveable bridge typically at the entrance to a castle or tower surrounded by a moat.In some forms of English, including American English, the word drawbridge commonly refers to all types of moveable bridges, such as bascule bridges, vertical-lift bridges and swing bridges, but this article concerns the ...
Correction/clarification: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported the timing of a lawsuit Florida State filed against the ACC regarding withdrawal from the conference.
The European Peninsula is connected to the Scandinavian Peninsula by the Øresund Bridge, and both have many connections to the mainland of Eurasia, including the bridges over the Bosphorus. Antarctica has very few roads and no continent-bridging network, though there are a few ice roads between bases, such as the South Pole Traverse .