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The bridge was designed by Sir [[Alexander Meadows Rendel|Alexander Rendel]] and [[Francis Joseph Edward Spring|F J E Spring]] as Engineer-in-Chief, and [[Ernest Ifill Shadbolt]] as Executive Engineer on construction. . The truss spans are built of plate girders and were fabricated in Britain, half by P & W MacLellan and half by Head Wrightson Co.
<ref>[http://pubs-newcomen.com/tfiles/72bp179s.pdf “Bridge Building Achievements of P & W MacLellan & Co (1850-1914) by Michael Moss and John Hume, page 192]; Retrieved on 1 May 2016</ref>
The ‘Kistna Bridge” comprised twelve 300 foot(9.1mtr) spans and was constructed with as a broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) line. At some time an additional rail was added to allow metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) traffic to use the bridge <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 Bridges on the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway “by D.H.McPherson]; Retrieved 26 Nov 2020</ref>. This would be to accommodate the ‘[[Bellary-Kistna State Railway]]’ metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line.
==Later History==
In 1901 the southern section of the ‘[[East Coast State Railway]]’ - which included the ‘Kistna Bridge’ - was 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 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/>
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