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| Union MoS inspects 'AnjiKhad', India's first 'cable-stayed rail bridge' | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 28: Union Minister of State for Textiles and Railways, Darshana Vikram Jardosh visited India's first cable-stayed rail bridge, Anji Khad on Indian Railway in Kashmir Valley. The Minister was accompanied by SP Mahi, CAO/USBRL, and RK Hedge, ED/KRCL, the team of NR and KRCL officials. SP Mahi briefed about the project and explained the various features of AnjiKhad in the course of the inspection of the Anji Khad bridge.
While visiting the AnjiKhad & reviewing the progress of the USBRL Project Minister hails the Indian Railway's efforts to make Indian Railways; the best in the world. Overcoming geographic and climatic challenges, Railways Engineers and Officials have conquered the invincible.
The country's first cable-stayed rail bridge, the AnjiKhad Bridge is part of the crucial Udampur-Srinagar-Baramulla (USBRL) railway project in Jammu and Kashmir. It is an asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge balanced on the axis of a central pylon and is being built in the challenging terrain of young fold mountains of the Himalayas in extreme geographical conditions. History has been created when all the 96 cables of this bridge were fully installed in a position successfully on 26th April 2023 in a record time period of 11 months (June'2022 to April 2023) in spite of all constraints.
The AnjiKhad Bridge is an engineering marvel and it is the "first cable-stayed bridge" on Indian Railway connecting Katra to Reasi in Jammu & Kashmir on the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Line project. This asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge crosses the deep gorges of Anji River, a tributary of river Chenab. The bridge connects Tunnel T2 on the Katra side and Tunnel T3 on the Reasi side.
The total length of the bridge is 725 m which includes a 473 m long asymmetric cable stay bridge balanced on the axis of a central pylon of height 193m from the top of the foundation, standing at a height of 331 meters above the river bed. The cable stay bridge has a 290 m span on the north side (Katra Side) and a 183 m span on the south side (Reasi side). The bridge has a single-line railway track and a 3.75m wide service road. The strands for this bridge are specifically designed with a 15.7 mm diameter and have three layers of protection i.e. Zinc coated, wax-filled plus PU / HDPE cover over the strands. The cable's length ranges between a minimum of 80 m up to 295 m as a maximum. The stay cables are composed of 31, 37, or 43 strands.
Anji Cable Stay bridge is designed with a total of 96 cables i.e. 48 cables each on the Lateral and Central spans. The cables totally weigh 848.7 MT and the total length of cable strands involved is 653 km.
Every day, Indian Railway is edging closer to connecting Kashmir Valley to the rest of the Railway network. |
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