Pamban Bridge
9.282568196666779.201641082778Koordinaten: 9 ° 16 ' 57.2 "N, 79 ° 12' 5.9 " E
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Pamban Bridge (English Pamban Bridge, Tamil பாம்பன் பாலம் ) is one consisting of a railway and a road bridge connecting the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, which leads from the mainland across the Palk Strait to the island of Pamban.
Railway bridge
First considerations to build a bridge to improve the trade routes to Ceylon were hired by the British colonial administration already in the 1870s. Construction of the bridge began in 1911.
Opened on February 29, 1914 -meter gauge steel plate girder bridge is 2065 meters long between the two shores. It is about five meters above the water on concrete pillars 143, which are arranged at a distance of about 13 meters. Approximately 430 meters from the shore pambanseitigen a two Wipparmen in half-timbered style bascule bridge with 65.23 meters wingspan is inserted. This has been opened up recently by hand for 10 to 15 larger ships per month and was up to the opening of the Bandra- Worli Sea Link in Mumbai in 2009, India's only sea bridge. Although she suffered from the damp air and was damaged by the Rameswaram cyclone in 1964, it is still essentially to the original bridge. The railway line was umgespurt of Indian Railways broad gauge and re-opened on 12 August 2007, after the demolition was not previously considered. 2009 the bridge for freight was reinforced again, the support of Wipparem was provided with additional side supports. Indian Railways is trying to bring the bridge into the World Heritage List of UNESCO.
Railway bridge partial view
Road bridge
Parallel to the railway bridge is approximately 40 meters south of the two-lane road bridge opened in 1988, Annai Indira Gandhi Road Bridge. This is supported by 79 pillars 2345 meter long steel girder bridge with applied concrete slab, which is increased arc for ship passage at the height of the railroad bascule bridge. The passage is crossed with a three -span steel box girder, with the midfield have a span of 115 m and the two outer each 68 meter wingspan. The carriageway of the road is 10.64 meters wide. From both sides of the viaduct each has a uniform slope to the crossing of the navigation channel.