Great Indian Rivers and Railway Bridges: Compilation from Indian Railways
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2013
- The Indian peninsula is blessed with a multitude of rivers, around which historic civilizations have manifested themselves in the past three decades, and societies amounting to millions of individuals, spread across a vast diversity of ethnicities have grown. Some of these rivers like the Ganga or Godavari have become religious icons, probably due to the vast areas of land they have helped make arable and support communities around it.
This video attempts to document some of these magnificent water bodies, as seen from traveling on the Indian railways, along with some magnificent engineering structures in the Indian railway network in the form of railway bridges. A number of the videos are taken in the monsoon season, when the rivers are brimming with water courtesy the heavy rains which lash India. This compilation covers 10 of the major Indian states across all major geographical regions barring the north-east. Most of the river are major inter-state rivers, traversing over at least a couple of hundred kilometres, though a couple of local rivers such as the Rupnarain in West Bengal, or the Wardha in Maharashtra are also included. The longest river within India, the Ganga is prominently featured, along with the second longest river, Godavari. Some of bridges support some high speeds like the Chambal, Rupnarain, Tapi or Mahanadi, resulting in some very high speed river crossings.
There are however some notable exceptions which I have not been able to document such as the Saraighat Bridge over the Brahmaputra, the Farakka Barrage over the Ganga, crossings of the Narmada, Kaveri, Yamuna, Tungabhadra, Gandak, Ghaghara, Kosi and the rivers forming the Indus basin. I hope that a sequel to this video would be successful in presenting these other magnificent rivers.
In order of appearance, the rivers presented in the video, and the trains from which they have been captured are:
1. River Godavari, Rajahmundry (Andhra Pradesh): 12663 Howrah Tiruchirapalli Express. At 2.9 km, this is arguably the finest river crossing on Indian Railways, with a fantastic pair of bridges offering some great views.
2. River Hughli, Dakshineshwar (West Bengal): 12260 New Delhi Sealdah Duronto Express. This video is captured at around 100 kmph.
3. River Mandovi, Madgaon (Goa): 12432 Trivandrum Rajdhani Express.
4. River Ganga, Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh): 12382 New Delhi Howrah Poorva Express. This is a night crossing under a full moon.
5. Koel River, Rourkela (Odisha): 18189 Tata Alleppey Express. While this is not exactly a river crossing, the tracks run parallel to the Koel river for around a kilometre and curve along with the river, providing a gorgeous view of the river in the midst of the Saranda forests. The experience is heightened by the chugging and smoking of the twin diesels hauling the Tata Alleppey Express.
6. River Mahanadi, Cuttack (Odisha): 12278 Puri Howrah Duronto Express. Witness the furious acceleration over the 2.1 km Mahanadi River.
7. River Subarnarekha, Muri (Jharkhand): 22824 Bhubaneshwar Rajdhani Express.
8. River Tapi, Surat (Gujarat): 22210 New Delhi Mumbai Duronto Express, captured at around 105 kmph.
9. River Ganga, Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh): 12382 New Delhi Howrah Poorva Express. The famous ghats of Varanasi can be discerned from this video.
10. Rupnarain River, Kolaghat (West Bengal): 12021 Howrah Barbil Jan Shatabdi Express. This video is captured at around 100-105 kmph.
11. River Zuari, Madgaon (Goa): 12432 Trivandrum Rajdhani Express.
12. River Brahmani, Jajpur (Odisha): 22824 Bhubaneshwar Rajdhani Express.
13. River Chambal, Dhaulpur (Uttar Pradesh-Madhya Pradesh border): 12433 Chennai Rajdhani Express. The train simply blasted over the bridge at 130 kmph: undoubtedly the fastest river crossing I have experienced over a major bridge on Indian Railways.
14. River Wardha, Balharshah (Maharashtra): 12433 Chennai Rajdhani Express.
15. River Hughli, Dakshineshwar (West Bengal): 12260 New Delhi Sealdah Duronto Express. One can clearly see the famous Dakshineshwar Kali Temple in this video, where the Bengali mystic Ramakrishna lived for much of his life, and from where he initiated Swami Vivekananda into monastic life.
16. River Krishna, Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh): 12663 Howrah Tiruchirapalli Express.
The Godavari bridge was built in while I was studying in Rajahmundry. Visiting the building site on the sand banks in the river bed used to be a part of our week end activities. The construction was delayed due to the 1971 war, because some of the material meant for the girders were diverted to repair bridges in Bangladesh damaged by the war. It was opened in 1975. We used to enjoy the beautiful view from the top road deck of the bridge. Thanks for including this bridge.
I have traveled on almost all the bridges you have shown , but after looking at your compilation I felt like travelling once again, excellent, well done .
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Just amazing structures! :)
Amazing compilation .....sudhu the king of all railway bridges tai missing.... Pamban Bridge... hope to see it soon... :)
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congratulations from chile very good video...ferrofriend......
Awesome vid!
Pure documentary, just the right stuff.
If I ever go to India I'd love to take some of those trains with you!
called an Incredible India...!! you have to come to India, once in life...you will never go back to home country after seeing india.. i challenged you...!!!
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always welcome dear..
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beautifulllll india,,blessed with rivers,,thankuhhhh mahadev!! and thankuh sir for uploading these beautiful videos,,,i'm so in love with indian railways and beautiful train journeys,,,,keep uploading moreeee,,,,,,ganga river of varanasiiiiiiiiiiiii had my hearttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
awesome compilation of river bridges across India. Khusi lagila. Anek Dhanyabad. :)
Onek dhonnobad bhai! :)
what a lovely compilation...
great compilation. keep them coming
Excellent compilation. A minor correction for bridge at 18:08 - It is the Chambal near Dholpur, near the MP-Rajasthan border.
Have traveled on most of the bridges they are simply called as superb make....
Thank you!
great compilation...nice videos....amazing river crossings...enjoyed and thanks a lot ...
Really wonderful !
If we Travel by train, it amounts to knowing tour own country.
Thanks a lot!
Excellent compilation!
Beautiful video. It makes you feel as if you are sitting in train. Worth appreciating.
Thanks a lot! :)
Nice video yaar good seen of river godavari
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Onek dhonnobad!
Nice yaar...
Superb
Great Compilation .
you just made my day !
thanks friend, amazing footage, beautiful trains
Thanks to Indian Railway for this great mentainance
thanks for uploading..
really a nice video frnd thanks for sharing :-)
the nostalgia is soo real !
Indian railways is also great
Nice collection,,,,expect to see Saraighat bridge too
Simply Superb
Simply superb.
gr8 video.. btw 13:13 is it a rajdhani exp? bt there is a local coach in the front? hows that possible?
Video from the heaven!!!!!
IMO - most classic river crossing in India is over Farakka Barrage near Malda. The sound water makes (if a gate is opened) is both terrifying and mesmerising.
This is a legendary video 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Cool....!!
very nice video..superbbb
Very nice...good job.
Classy video..
Wow bro beautiful
excellent video
Great....
awesome video very very very nice
Hehe...thank you so much! :)
very good effort
v.nice
Super and Its Dangerous place but i like That place And i love Nature
very good video
Big salute to the Engineers !!!
PATLIPUTRA me jo ganga pr pul naya bana hai uska video banaye
If there is no air it will best other than that it is very best video
Sir u missed mighty saryu (ghaghara) river 's elgin bridge.
nice to indian brize in
super
Many years ago when I went 2 Chennai I touched Godavari river bridge
how i uplaod my video to your channel ?? btw thank you so much best of indian railways team
Rajamundry road cum rail bridge is xcellent planing
The Pamban bridge is missing!
Or have you eliminated it on purpose as it over the sea and not over a river?
Vipraajesh N G
Thanks gsv ramam
How can u forget Saraighat Bridge over the Mighty Brahmaputra??? Your list is incomplete without it... You better visit it to get to know....
Buy some FOAM and wrap it round the Mic part of your video camera. (air filter).
where is naranarayan bridge of Assam near Goalpara
bro son river bridge, farakka barage and brahmaputra river bridge should also be there.
Ashir Hassan jo
india ki sabse badi railway bridge ka video to isme hai hi nahi. Son River, Bihar approx 3.6 km long railway bridge indias longest
at 1:02 there must be a lot of laundry!
rajahmundry bring soooo beautiful
surat howrah rout video banao
The First Bridge is not on Maha Nadi.. it is the Rail cum road bridge on Godavari near Raja Mahendravaram to Kovvuru.. Don't misrepresent the information.
The bridge over river Mahanadi is mentioned another one...The rail cum road bridge is mentioned to be on Godavari...
ഗോദാവരി പാലത്തിന്റെ അടുത്ത് ഒരു കരിമ്പന ഉണ്ടല്ലോ , അപ്പൊ ഇത് പാലക്കാട് പോലെ ആണോ?
Vivekananda Bridge over Hooghly is included twice.
Just you could have included the sea bridge in Rameshwaram to complete the list
Kanpur ganges bridge? ring any bells?
Ami sob kota bridge a giyechi
i think next time you should mute the mic while recording the video.. there is so much of noise because of the wind
gadabari bridge..East cost express ...mai isme to bohot bar geya
Pritam Koley bhai it's Godavari
Missed the Mighty Brahmaputra :(
1:22 Chawda nodi dekho
18.07 it's Rajasthan Madhya Pradesh Border
Great documentation, but terrible camera handling. You swivel so fast from one view to the other that it makes the head of the viewer spin. Please pan more gently, whenever you make other videos.
Rajah mundry big bridge
this is not the bridge in cuttck it was the bridge in rajayamundari its godavari bridge
Godavari river is the widest river.
Doreent expres
Farakka bridge??
kaustav ray talukdar shdhg
Sound quality is bad.
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The view of Ganga and Banaras from train was amazing.
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Be careful bro...its too dangerous
Where is Brahmaputra??
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