New Pamban railway bridge: Work in progress! Piyush Goyal-led Indian Railways has started constructing the first pillar in the sea for India’s first vertical lift railway sea bridge. According to ANI, the development work on the vertical lift railway sea bridge is currently going on at Pamban in the state of Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuram district. Earlier, it was reported that the development work on this Indian Railways’ new Pamban railway bridge was started on 8 November 2019. The overall construction work on this bridge is likely to be completed within the next two years.
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more... new Pamban railway sea bridge is a first-of-its-kind project for Indian Railways. The new Pamban railway sea bridge would be 2.05 kilometres long and it will link Mandapam on the mainland and Rameswaram at the Pamban island. Interestingly, it will have the nation’s first vertical launch rail section.