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The bridge ==Later History==In 1901 the southern section of the [[East Coast State Railway]] - which included the ‘Havelock Bridge’ - was decommissioned transferred to the [[Madras Railway]](MR) in 1901; subsequently renamed [[Madras (North-East) Railway]]; becoming the [[Madras-Waltair NE Mainline]] of the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]](M&SMR) in 1997 replaced 1908. In 1946 there was complete ‘re-flooring’ of the bridge by replacing the wooden longitudinal and wooden sleepers with a steel system <ref name=ICE1946>[https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/ijoti.1946.13744 Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 26 Issue 7, May 1946, pp. 403-405 “The re-flooring of the Kistna and Godavari Arch BridgeBridges on the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway “by D.H.McPherson]; Retrieved 26 Nov 2020</ref>.
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The '''Havelock Bridge''' (Godavari Old Bridge) spanned the Godavari River in Andhra Pradesh. The bridge formed a vital link in the broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) [[East Coast State Railway]] mainline between [[Howrah]] and [[Madras]](Chennai).
Some records describe this as the ‘Godavri Bridge’ which is identified as the ‘Godavri Old Bridge’
[[File:Havelock Bridge.png|thumb|Havelock Bridge]]
The construction of the bridge commenced on November 11, 1897 and opened for traffic on August 30, 1900.
<br> The bridge was constructed with stone masonry and steel girders. It had 56 spans each of 45.7 metres (150 ft)and is 3,480 metres (11,420 ft) long
<ref name=Wiki>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Godavari_Bridge Wikipedia "Old Godavari Bridge"]; Retrieved 25 Nov 2020</ref>
==Personnel==The Consulting Engineer on the project was [[Francis Joseph Edward Spring]] as Consulting Engineer to the Government of India([[Government of India |GoI]])<ref name=Wiki/>
The Bridge was named after Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock, the then Governor of Madras.
*[[Frederick Thomas Granville Walton]] served as the Engineer-in-chief assisted by executive engineers :-** R.A.Delanougerede, ** F.D.Couchman, ** J.E.Eaglesome.The bridge was constructed with stone masonry and steel girders. It had 56 spans each of 45.7 metres (150 ft)and is 3,480 metres (11,420 ft) long.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Godavari_Bridge Wikipedia "Old Godavari Bridge"]; Retrieved 9 Dec 2015</ref>
The bridge was decommissioned in 1997 replaced by the Godavari Arch Bridge <ref name=Wiki/>.
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