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''Footnote – to avoid confusion we have adopted the following titles'':-
*Kistna Viaduct, Raichur(GIPR) the subject of this page
*[[Kistna Bridge, Bezwada(ECR)]]
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'''Kistna Viaduct, Raichur(GIPR)'''
''Note – to avoid confusion Fibis have adopted the following titles'':-*Kistna Viaduct, Raichur(GIPR) the subject of this page*[[Kistna Bridge, Bezwada(ECR)]] The Kistna Viaduct crossing the Kisna Kistna River near [[Raichur]] was constructed by the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]] (GIPR) and opened in cMay 1871 to complete the [[Great Indian Peninsular Railway- Lines owned and worked#GIPR South East|'GIPR South-East Mainline']] to [[Raichur]].1870 as part [[Raichur]], in the state of [[Hyderabad]], was the junction of its main linethe GIPR with the [[Madras Railway]], 351 miles (351km) from [[Madras]] via [[Kalyan]].
The [[RaichurGreat Indian Peninsular Railway- Lines owned and worked#GIPR South East Mainline|'GIPR South-East Mainline']], in the state of from [[HyderabadKalyan]], is at the junction of the to [[Madras RailwayRaichur]] had extended to Krishna on the northern bank of the Kistna River in 1870. Until the bridge work was completed the traffic was conveyed by a temporary tramway over the bed of the river in the dry season, and by means of a steamer and boats during the GIPRmonsoon <ref> British Library India Office Records IOR/L/PARL/2/ 100 ‘Parliamentry Papers’- “Annual Report on Railways in India, 351 m[iles] N.E. from Madras1871-72”</ref>.
==Viaduct Costruction==
The viaduct was 3854 feet in length (443 m.) and comprise 36 equal girders of 107 ft., with a weight of 2500 tons, supplied by Skere Ironworks, Darlington, Britain and Woodside Works, Dudley supplied 1200 tons of cast iron piers
<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=q4SlCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA239&lpg=PA239&dq=Kistna+Viaduct&source=bl&ots=7dGhKD8joT&sig=kH-sTrhZmg0Zsi7LnlBCeTmqXak&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjC-e_RmbnMAhWROsAKHWbODxwQ6AEIKTAC#v=onepage&q=Kistna%20Viaduct&f=false Google Books - “The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise” by Kartar Lalvani; page 239]; Retrieved on 2 May 2016</ref>.
[[George Berkley]] was the GIPR Consulting Engineer on the project who first visited India in 1867
<ref>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/George_Berkley Grace's Guide "George Berkley]; Retrieved on 2 May 2016</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/stream/girdermakingand02hutcgoog/girdermakingand02hutcgoog_djvu.txt Archive.org “Girder Making and the Practice of Bridge Building in Wrought Iron”by George Hutchinson MBMB, Inst.Mech.Eng, 1879; Page 75]; Retrieved on 2 May 2016</ref>.
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