A view of the Chenab Bridge as India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge on Anji river in Jammu and Kashmir.
| Photograph Credit score: ANI
After lacking a number of deadlines, together with these in 2017 and 2022, the venture costing over ₹400 crore, India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge can be prepared in Could this 12 months.
Twenty years and within the making, the delayed development of the Anji Khad bridge, an important connector for the passage of a prepare between Jammu and Kashmir (J&Okay), is a serious chink within the armour of the Indian Railways’ formidable plan to seamlessly join Kashmir to the remainder of India.
“All 96 cables have been totally put in as on April 26, in a file time interval of 11 months between June 2022 and April 2023 regardless of all constraints,” a senior Railway official mentioned.
The Anji bridge is designed with a complete 96 cables— 48 cables every on lateral and central spans. “The cables completely weigh 848.7 metric tonnes with whole size of cable strands concerned working into 653 kilometres,” the official mentioned.
As on date, 44 out of whole 47 segments have been launched which require assist of keep cables. Now, the steadiness three segments shall be launched with out keep cables as per the design.
The bridge connects tunnel T2 on Katra facet to tunnel T3 on Reasi in Jammu & Kashmir on the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Line venture.
The full size of the bridge is 725 metres, which features a 473- metre-long uneven cable-stayed bridge, balanced on the axis of a central pylon at 193 metres peak from the highest of the inspiration, standing at a peak of 331 metres (almost 77 storeys) above the river-bed.
The cable-stayed bridge has a 290-metre span on the north facet (Katra facet) and a 183-metre span on the south facet (Reasi facet). The bridge has a single-line railway monitor and a 3.75 metre huge service street. After completion of the bridge, it can pave the way in which for a single broad gauge monitor for trains connecting Jammu to Baramulla through Srinagar, alongside a 326-km railway line.
The venture is commissioned by the Northern Railways and is being executed by Konkan Railway Company Restricted (KRCL) and Hindustan Development Firm.
