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The '''Chak-Nizam Bridge''', also known as the '''Victoria Bridge''' was completed in early 1887 over the river Jhelum in the [[Shahpur]] district about 100 miles north-west of Lahore. It was a vital link in the [[Sind-Sagar Railway]] that had become part of the [[North Western Railway]](NWR) and formed the NWR mailine <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n116/mode/2up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government  Printing,  Calcutta;  page 107, pdf page 116]; Retrieved 15 Jul 2016</ref>


The construction of the bridge colourfully described in the "Civil and Military Gazette", 18 May 1887 <ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IcGwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=Sind-Sagar+Railway&source=bl&ots=YG60t7pX5D&sig=KmrjM8ls0tWpKlm1ls37RkbFfFE&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt2syilPLNAhWPSxoKHU8UCjQQ6AEIWzAJ#v=onepage&q=Sind-Sagar%20Railway&f=false Google Books "Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884–88" by Rudyard Kipling, pages 215-218]; Retrieved on 14 Jul 2016</ref>.
The Engineers were James Ramsay, Engineer-in-Chief Sind State Railway; [[Frederick Robert Upcott]], Engineer-in-Charge of the Bridge; Mr Boydell, Executive Engineer and Mr J Spence, Sub-Engineer
Rudyard Kipling reports a speech by the Chief Engineer, James Ramsay, in which various delays and accidents are mentioned, including 'having to wait for the girder-work not arrived from England'
<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=N6E1CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA576&lpg=PA576&dq=chak+nizam+bridge&source=bl&ots=UD6BLbKXnC&sig=dQLKjlqmWLgSrzvhOKjuyheePtA&hl=fr&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj3zqjXlvLNAhXFPBoKHbrtDCYQ6AEIYTAN#v=onepage&q=chak%20nizam%20bridge&f=false Google Books "Stories and Poems" by Rudyard Kipling, page 576]; Retrieved on 14 Jul 2016</ref>.
== References ==
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[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Railway Constructions]]

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