Bridge in Kashmir - Stupendous

A wonderful project, when completed , Indian Railways can be proud of this just like Konkan Rlys or DMRC . An engineering marvel in our backyard.! Cost per km. no more than that of an elevated Metro corridor

The next man-made wonder? World's highest railway bridge being built over Chenab will dwarf the Eiffel Tower

PUBLISHED: 21:40 GMT, 14 February 2013 | UPDATED: 21:40 GMT, 14 February 2013

Touted as the next man-made wonder, the world's highest rail bridge being built across Chenab riverbed in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir will take at least three more years to be functional. Railway officials say the bridge, which is five times higher than Delhi's Qutub Minar and far taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris, will be completed by December 2016. The arched structure will connect Baramulla to Jammu via Udhampur-Katra-Qazigund with a travel time of six-and-a-half hours. Currently, it takes exactly double the time - 13 hours - to reach Jammu from Baramulla in northern Kashmir, which is 60km from Srinagar.

The construction of the bridge started in 2002 when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the prime minister. It was stopped in 2008 when the project was announced to be unsafe. However, the construction restarted in 2010, and has now been declared a national project. The bridge is coming up at Salal village in Reasi