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.