A view of the Chenab Bridge as India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge on Anji river in Jammu and Kashmir.
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After lacking a number of deadlines, together with these in 2017 and 2022, the challenge costing over ₹400 crore, India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge will be ready in May this year.
Twenty years and in the making, the delayed building of the Anji Khad bridge, an important connector for the passage of a prepare between Jammu and Kashmir (J&Okay), is a significant chink in the armour of the Indian Railways’ formidable plan to seamlessly join Kashmir to the remainder of India.
“All 96 cables have been fully installed as on April 26, in a record time period of eleven months between June 2022 and April 2023 in spite of all constraints,” a senior Railway official mentioned.
The Anji bridge is designed with a complete 96 cables— 48 cables every on lateral and central spans. “The cables totally weigh 848.7 metric tonnes with total length of cable strands involved running into 653 kilometres,” the official mentioned.
As on date, 44 out of whole 47 segments have been launched which require help of keep cables. Now, the stability three segments shall be launched with out keep cables as per the design.
The bridge connects tunnel T2 on Katra facet to tunnel T3 on Reasi in Jammu & Kashmir on the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Line challenge.
The whole size of the bridge is 725 metres, which features a 473- metre-long uneven cable-stayed bridge, balanced on the axis of a central pylon at 193 metres top from the highest of the inspiration, standing at a top of 331 metres (practically 77 storeys) above the river-bed.
The cable-stayed bridge has a 290-metre span on the north facet (Katra facet) and a 183-metre span on the south facet (Reasi facet). The bridge has a single-line railway observe and a 3.75 metre huge service street. After completion of the bridge, it will pave the best way for a single broad gauge observe for trains connecting Jammu to Baramulla through Srinagar, alongside a 326-km railway line.
The challenge is commissioned by the Northern Railways and is being executed by Konkan Railway Corporation Limited (KRCL) and Hindustan Construction Company.
