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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 both sides of cities of Kolkata.
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 both sides of Kolkata city. 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]
There are three other bridges on the Hooghly River connecting Kolkata with Howrah district: Vivekananda Setu built in 1930, (road-cum-rail bridge) – the first to be commissioned, [10] and which had become old and needed repairs; Howrah Bridge, a cantilever bridge commissioned in 1943, now renamed as Rabindra Setu (since 1965 in honour of the ...
Vidyasagar Setu (Second Hooghly Bridge): Commissioned in 1992, it is the longest cable-stayed bridge in India and one of the longest in Asia connecting Kolkata with Howrah. Vivekananda Setu (Bally Bridge): Built in December 1932, it is a multi-span steel bridge and was built to provide road cum rail link between the Calcutta Port and its ...
The second Ishwar Gupta Bridge is an extadosed cable-stayed bridge. 6 concrete-built pylons hold the cables. The bridge consists of a steel-framed concrete deck including two carriageways, with a total length of 714 meters (2,343 ft). The total width of the two deck carriageways is 35 meters (115 ft). [1]
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 ...
Watch live aerial views of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, after it collapsed in the early hours of Tuesday morning (26 March). A container ship crashed into the structure at ...
Howrah Bridge (also known as Rabindra Setu) and Vidyasagar Setu (also known as Second Hooghly Bridge) are two bridges connecting Kolkata with Howrah over the Ganges. Bally Bridge (also known as Vivekandanda Setu) is the third bridge over the river at the northern reach of the city near Dakshineswar from Howrah.It is a road cum rail bridge. [2]