Hardinge Bridge
The Hardinge Bridge is a steel railway bridge over the river Ganges(+Padma) located at Paksey in East Bengal (now western Bangladesh). It is named after Lord Hardinge, who was the Viceroy of India from 1910 to 1916. The bridge is 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) long and was constructed to carry the broad gauge(BG) East Bengal Railway(EBR). [1]
The construction of a railway bridge over the Ganges(+Padma) was proposed in 1889 by the Eastern Bengal Railway for easier communication between Calcutta and Eastern Bengal and Assam. In 1902, Sir F.J.E Spring prepared a report on the bridge. A technical committee reported that a bridge could be constructed at Sara crossing the lower Ganges between the Paksey and Bheramara Upazila stations on the BG railway from Khulna to Parbatipur Upazila. The construction of the bridge started in 1910 and finished two years later. [2]
+ The river between the west side of Bangladesh and its confluence with the Jamuna was previously called the Ganges, and is now referred to as the Padma.
References
- ↑ [1] Wikipedia – ‘Harding Bridge’. Retrieved on 8 Dec 2015
- ↑ [2] Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers; E-ISSN 1753-7843; Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Volume 205, Issue 1918; pages 18-67. ‘The Hardinge Bridge over the Lower Ganges at Sara’. Published Online: June 05, 2015; Retrieved on 8 Dec 2015