Chenab River Railway Bridge
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Chenab River
Railway Bridge is a 359 metres high arch bridge
at Katra, Jammu-Kashmir, India
under construction. When completed as scheduled in 2015, it will be the tallest railway bridge in the world. The bridge will consist beside the arc of a further pillar bridge section.
Chenab River
The Chenab River چنRiver' آب) is a major river of Jammu and Kashmir and the Punjab in Pakistan. It forms in the upper Himalayas in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, India, and flows through the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir into the plains of the Punjab, Pakistan...
Railway Bridge is a 359 metres high arch bridge
Arch bridge
An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side...
at Katra, Jammu-Kashmir, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
under construction. When completed as scheduled in 2015, it will be the tallest railway bridge in the world. The bridge will consist beside the arc of a further pillar bridge section.