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[[Image:Lansdowne_bridge_drawing.png|thumb|right|500px|The bridge]]
==Background==
The [[Indus Valley State Railway]] had reached [[Sukkur]] in 1879 1878 and the steam ferry that transported eight wagons at a time across the Indus between [[Rohri]] and [[Sukkur]] was found to be cumbersome and time-consuming. The opening of the Lansdowne Bridge in 1889 solved this bottleneck and thus port of [[Karachi]] was connected to the railway network
In 1886 the [[North Western Railway]] (NWR) had been formed by amalgamation of the [[Indus Valley State Railway]], the [[Sind, Punjab and Delhi Railway]](SP&DR) and others. <br>''(The SP&DR had absorbed the [[Punjaub Railway| ‘Punjaub Railway - northern end Lahore-Mooltan section']] and the [[Scinde Railway| ‘Scinde Railway -southern end Kotri-Karachi section]])''. <br>With the completion of the bridge in 1889 the NWR ‘Ghaziabad-Karachi Mainline’ provided the through connection under one operator.
