Thursday, November 14, 2024

KOLGHAT BRIDGE ON NH 16

 The  KOLGHAT  bridge is key bridge of some 800 meters in lenghth on the RupNarayan river midway between Kharagpur  and Kolkata on the NH-16 which connects  CHENNAI  to KOLKATA..There are seperate rail and road bridges.


I was travelling on this route few years back and mis-took it to be the HOWRAH bridge until a faculty from this part of the world teaching at the Indian Statistical Institute gave me a clear picture of things.This bridge appears vividly on the trail on NH-16.



The city of KOLKATA and its surroundings have many prominent bridges and could be confused with each other; names like the Hoogly Bridge, the Vidyasagar bridge and the Howrah bridge.Each of these bridges must be studied independantly to understand their position and orientation.









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There are two road bridges here the old one built in 1960's and the new one part of NH 16 in 1998 or so.

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