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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

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