Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1889 — Bridge Over the Indus. [ARTICLE]

Bridge Over the Indus.

The Sukkur or Lansdowne bridge, recently erected over the River Indus, has a main span made un of two can.* Ulevers of 810 feet each and a suspended truss of 200 feet making a total >pan of 820 feet, the longest of its character in the world.* The Indian Engineer says that in this long span, weighing 8,300 tons, the expansion between the abutments amounts to nearly 8 inches, and the nose of the cantilever moves horizontally up and down Btream about 2 inches in the course of each day as the one side or the other of the bridge is exposed to the direct rays of the sun. This bridge has, beside the great span, three others of 278 feet, 238 feet, and 94$ feet respectively, of ordinary girders resting on piers founded on the rock. Work was commenced in 1883-4, and all except the main span was finished in March, 1885. The staging for the main span was started January 18, 1889 and was finished January 30; erection was commenced February 5. The engineer was Sir A. M. Rendel, and the builders were Westwood A Baillie, of Pop* lar, Londoq. The total cost of the whole bridge was $1,528,800. It carries the Indian State Railway over the Indus River.