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Son River Bridge near Arrah
Note: "Son River" is used in the Imperial Gazetteer of India which we take as the definitive spelling, also used in Wikipedia [1]. Other variants are "Soane River" used in Huddlestone [2]; "Sone River" is used in several other documents [3] [4] [5].
The Son River near Arrah was a major obstacle on the route of the East Indian Railway line. The monsoon-ravaged Ganges tributaries such as the wide Son River were particularly challenging to bridge; a major constraint for the EIR Chief Engineer George Turnbull was the lack of both quality clay and brick-building skills. Consequently a steel lattice-girder design was adopted which required importing ironwork from England [5]
Construction started in 1856, disrupted by uprisings in 1857, and completed in 1862. Samuel Power was General Assistant to the EIR Chief Engineer George Turnbull on the construction of the Son River Bridge.
The original bridge was replaced in 1924-25 by the 'Upper Sone Bridge' [6]
The replacement bridge was renamed the Koilwar Bridge in 1947 [4]
References
- ↑ Wikipedia "Son River"; Retrieved 11 Jun 2016
- ↑ Archive.org "History of the East Indian Railway ..." by George Huddlestone pages 19 and 35, pdf pages 40 and 58; Retrieved 11 Jun 2016
- ↑ “Symphony of Progress - The Saga of the Eastern Railway 1854-2003”; published by Eastern Railway, 2003; pages 11 and 14
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wikipedia "Koilwar Bridge" Retrieved 11 Jun 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Grace's Guide "George Turnbull"; Retrieved 11 Jun 2016 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "GGturnb" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Grace's Guide "Upper Sone Bridge"; Retrieved 11 Jun 2016
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