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The Dapoorie Viaduct was completed in 1858 by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.
It was one of the early major railway bridge to be constructed in India and comprised 22 stone arches of about 33 feet (10M) each span. It was part of the very first railway to operate in India and still carries the main-line traffic today [1]
The masonary arches could only span short distances and required many piers [2]
Note : both the above citations are incorrect - the viaduct that carried the GIPR railway from Thane on Bombay Island to the Indian mainland was the Tannah Viaduct
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/d/019pho0000254s3u00041000.html also needs correction
References
- ↑ Google Books “ The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise” by Kartar Lalvani, page 326”; Retrieved 28 June 2016
- ↑ [ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ETIxCLujm30C&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=dapoorie+viaduct&source=bl&ots=TmnphlA_jq&sig=WbuiwOUh1mE34GdMutzhJRLbqTA&hl=en&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjp0fvEtsPNAhWBIcAKHTTRAKUQ6AEIXDAM#v=onepage&q=dapoorie%20viaduct&f=false Google Books “Engines of Change: The Railroads that Made India” by Ian J. Kerr, page 48”]; Retrieved 28 June 2016