Lansdowne Bridge Rohri
Sights/Landmarks
The Lansdowne Bridge Rohri is a former railway bridge over the Indus River in Sindh, Pakistan. A marvel of 19th-century engineering, the "longest 'rigid' girder bridge in the world" at that time, it was begun in 1887 and inaugurated in 1889. It was designed by Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel; the girder work, weighing a massive 3,300 tons, was manufactured in London by the firm of Westwood, Baillie and erected by F.E. Robertson, and Hecquet. The bridge permitted trains from Karachi towards the north to cross the Indus without using a ferry service, and railway link between Lahore, in the heart of the granary of British India, and the port of Karachi on the Arabian Sea.
When the great steel Ayub arch was constructed (1960–1962), railway traffic was shifted there. About a hundred feet apart, the two bridges seem like one from a distance. The Ayub arch became the world's third longest railway arch span and the first bridge in the world to have "the railway desk slung on coiled wire rope suspenders." The consulting engineer was David B. Steinman of New York, proponent of 'vocational aesthetics'.
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When the great steel Ayub arch was constructed (1960–1962), railway traffic was shifted there. About a hundred feet apart, the two bridges seem like one from a distance. The Ayub arch became the world's third longest railway arch span and the first bridge in the world to have "the railway desk slung on coiled wire rope suspenders." The consulting engineer was David B. Steinman of New York, proponent of 'vocational aesthetics'.
For more details: Lansdowne Bridge
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