*********** JUBILEE BRIDGE THE 128 YEAR OLD RAIL BRIDGE OF INDIA TOTALLY MADE BY THE BRITISH ***********
Sharing some images of The "Historical Jubilee Bridge made by the British" which is an important rail bridge over Hooghly River between Naihati and Bandel in West Bengal, India. Jubilee Bridge is flanked on either side by Garifa and Hooghly Ghat stations(In Naihati Bandel Section)
Brief History about Jubilee Bridge:
Jubilee...
more... Bridge was opened on 16 February 1887 in the fiftieth or jubilee year of the reign of Queen Victoria. The construction started in 1882 and completed in 1887. The Chief Engineer in charge of construction works was Lt Col Arthur John Barry, nephew of Sir John Wolfe-Barry, project engineer of London Tower Bridge.The Bridge was designed by Sir Bradford Leslie, Chief Engineer in India, and Alexander Meadows Rendel. Its steel was manufactured by Hawks Crawshay of Gateshead in England and James Goodwin of Motherwell in Scotland. Bradford Leslie also designed the floating pontoon bridge across the Hooghly in Calcutta, which was replaced by Howrah Bridge in 1942, and the Gorai River Railway Bridge near Kushtia in Bangladesh. He was a son of the American painter Charles Robert Leslie, ultimately Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy in London.The Jubilee Bridge is noteworthy in that it is a cantilever truss bridge, constructed entirely by riveting, without any nuts or bolts used in the construction.The bridge is currently planned to be phased out and a new rail bridge is being built adjacent to it to be named as Sampreeti Bridge.
Source of this info :
click hereAttached Images:
1 WAG 9 takes a Freight Train crossing Jubilee Bridge
Image Link:
click here2 BWN WDM 2 takes a Freight Train crossing Jubilee Bridge
Image Link:
click herePic Courtesy of both Images: SAMIT ROYCHOUDHURY
Main Page Link for above Images:
click here 3 Image of Jubilee Bridge over Hooghly River
Image Link:
click here4 Sampreeti Bridge Under Construction(Black Yellow Pillars on Hoogly River just the left side of Jubilee Bridge)
Image Link:
click here