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Kalpi Bridge
The Kalpi Bridge was completed in 1888 crossing the River Yamuna at Kalpi. Also referred to the Yamuna Bridge in some records.
The opening of the bridge completed the Cawnpore-Kalpi-Jhansi Railway which had opened in 1886 by Indian Midland Railway(IMR) and enabled a direct link to Bombay [1]
Personnel
- Hugh Lewin Monk, 1884 August, deployed from the Railway Branch of the Public Works Department to the Kalpi Bridge construction, having previously been with the Cawnpore-Kalpi Railway.