Bridge across Godavari undergoes maintenance first time in 43 years

With passenger train services regulated during the extended lockdown, the South Central Railway (SCR) completed comprehensive track maintenance work on the iconic second rail-cum-road bridge across the Godavari River near Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh. Track maintenance work on the 3-km bridge was undertaken for the first time in 43 years after it was commissioned in 1977. 

The work was executed in a mega block of 36 hours. The work had been pending for want of such a long block to train services 

given that the bridge is critical to the South-East Rail link of India, bridging the two sides of the Godavari on the Vijayawada-Visakhapatnam Railway Section of the Zone. 

Contact: Gajanan Mallya, General Manager, South Central Railway.

Address: 3rd Floor, Railnilayam, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh-500 071.

Tel: 040-2782 2874. 

E-mail: gm@scr.railnet.gov.in

Website: www.scr.indianrailways.gov.in