Anji Khad Bridge

April 28, 2023

All 96 cables on the first cable-stayed bridge in India, the Anji Khad bridge, have been fully installed in a record time of 11 months.

About Anji Khad Bridge:

It is an under-construction rail bridge in Jammu & Kashmir on the Indian Railways Jammu – Baramulla rail line.
It will connect the Union Territory of Kashmir with the rest of the country by train.
It is constructed over the Anji River, a tributary of the Chenab River between Katra and Reasi.
Anji Khad Bridge will be the first cable-stayed railway bridge in the country.
It is an asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge balanced on the axis of a central pylon.
The total length of the structure is 25 metres.
It stands at a height of 331 meters above the river bed.
The bridge has a single-line railway track and a 3.75-metre-wide service road.
The project is being executed by Konkan Railway Corporation Limited (KRCL) and Hindustan Construction Company.