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Across the Hooghly Riverin Kolkata, West Bengal.
Is a cantile vertruss bridge constructed entirely by riveting, using no nuts or bolts.
Built between 1937 and 1943, it has a single 450 m span.
It is currently used as a road bridge, but previously had a tram route.
Is 705 m long and 30m wide, supported by two piers, each nearly 90 meters above the road.
An engineering marvel, it expands as much as a meter during a summer day.
Is one of the finest cantilever bridge seen the world -left to India by the British engineers.
Linking Howrah to Kolkata, it is considered the gateway to Kolkata.
Renamed Rabindra Setu after Rabindranath Tagore.
More than 26,500 MT of high-tensile steel went into building this.
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