Empress Bridge

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The Sutlej Bridge also known as the Empress Bridge near Bahawalpur, Punjab (now in Pakistan). The bridge carried the Indus Valley State Railway over the Sutlej river.

The bridge over the Sutlej was built on twenty-seven brick piers, carried a railway line fifteen feet broad and a cart road of eighteen feet, flanked by footpaths. [1] [2]

The Engineer-in-Charge of the construction was William St John Galwey, assisted by in 1873 was Hugh Lewin Monk from the Public Works Department(PWD) Railway Branch of PWD.

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