Empress Bridge

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The Sutlej Bridge also known as the Empress Bridge near Bahawalpur, Punjab (now in Pakistan). The bridge, which opened in 1887, carried the Indus Valley State Railway over the Sutlej river between Ferozepur (Firozpur) (south of Lahore) and Kazur.

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 in 1873 by Hugh Lewin Monk from the Public Works Department(PWD) Railway Branch of PWD.

The Engineer-in-Chief of the Firozpur (Empress) Bridge in 1885-86 was Robert Trefusis Mallet from the PWD [3].

The bridge was later re-named the Kaisir-i-Hind Bridge (Empress of India in Hindi) and was the subject of a report “The Protection-Works of the Kaisir-i-Hind Bridge over the River Sutlej, near Ferozepore” delivered to the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1903. [4].

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