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The '''Dufferin Bridge''' over the River Ganges at Benares was constructed by the engineers of [[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway]](O&RR). The bridge was inaugurated by the Viceroy, the Earl of Dufferin, on 16 December 1887 <ref>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/imotp.1890.20390 Institution of Civil Engineers, "The Construction of the Dufferin Bridge over the Ganges at Benares" by Frederich Thomas Granville Walton] Retrieved on 21 Jul 2016</ref>.
The bridge carried the [[O%26RR_Lines_Owned_and_Worked |‘O&RR Mainline’]] from [[Moghal Sarai]] over the Ganges to [[Benares]] and onward.
==Bridge Construction==
Construction of the bridge was sanctioned by the Secretary of State for India in July 1879. The design was discussed and arranged by [[Henry Burdett Hederstedt]] <ref>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/imotp.1915.16286 Institution of Civil Engineers "Obituary Henry Burdett Hederstedt"] Retrieved on 21 Jul 2016</ref>, the O&RR Chief Engineer and Consulting Engineers in England.
The bridge has 7 spans of 350 ft and 9 spans of 110 ft and it was the first bridge of its type. The engineer in charge of construction of the Dufferin Bridge was [[Frederick Thomas Granville Walton]], who went on to become the Engineer in Chief of the O&RR <ref name=wiki>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malviya_Bridge Wikipedia “Malviya Bridge”] Retrieved on 21 Jul 2016</ref>.
==Later Developments==The O&RR was merged into the ‘[[East Indian Railway]]’ in 1925 and the ‘Dufferin Bridge’ became part of the [[East_Indian_Railway_-_Lines_owned_and_worked#Northern_Main_Line| ‘EIR Northern Main Line’]] The bridge was renamed as the '''Malviya Bridge ''' in 1948 after Madan Mohan Malaviya. As the bridge is near Rajghat, it is also locally known as Rajghat bridge <ref name=wiki/>.
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