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'''Ravi Bridge'''
The Ravi Railway Bridge is situated between Sadiq Pura, [[Lahore]] and Shahdara Bagh on Ravi river. The construction work on this bridge was started in 1871 and completed in 1876. It is composed of 33 iron trusses over many brick piers protected from scour by concrete blocks.
The bridge became part of the [[Punjab Northern State Railway]](PNSR) and provided a vital link in the [[Lahore]] to [[Peshawar]] line, 270 miles(430km)
<ref>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/imotp.1878.22416?src=recsys "Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers" Volume 54 Issue 1878, 1878, pp. 61-70]; Retrieved on 28 Apr 2016</ref>
[[Francis Joseph Edward Spring]] was deployed from the Indian Imperial Civil Service's engineering section in 1873 as Consulting Engineer for the survey of the PNSR and the construction of various parts of that Railway and Bridges, including the Ravi Bridge.
== References ==
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[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Railway Constructions]]
The Ravi Railway Bridge is situated between Sadiq Pura, [[Lahore]] and Shahdara Bagh on Ravi river. The construction work on this bridge was started in 1871 and completed in 1876. It is composed of 33 iron trusses over many brick piers protected from scour by concrete blocks.
The bridge became part of the [[Punjab Northern State Railway]](PNSR) and provided a vital link in the [[Lahore]] to [[Peshawar]] line, 270 miles(430km)
<ref>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/imotp.1878.22416?src=recsys "Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers" Volume 54 Issue 1878, 1878, pp. 61-70]; Retrieved on 28 Apr 2016</ref>
[[Francis Joseph Edward Spring]] was deployed from the Indian Imperial Civil Service's engineering section in 1873 as Consulting Engineer for the survey of the PNSR and the construction of various parts of that Railway and Bridges, including the Ravi Bridge.
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Railway Constructions]]
