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'''Malviya Bridge''', inaugurated in 1887 (originally called The Dufferin Bridge), is a double decker bridge over the [[Ganges]] at [[Varanasi]]. It carries rail track on lower deck and road on the upper deck. It is one of the major bridges on the Ganges and carries the [[Grand Trunk Road]] across the river.

It has 7 spans of 350 ft and 9 spans of 110 ft and it was the first bridge of its type constructed in the Indian sub-continent by the engineers of [[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway]] (O&R Railway).<ref>Bridges: The Spectacular Feat of Indian Engineering By R.R.Bhandari http://irsme.nic.in/files/mmfiles/BRIDGES_RRB.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305002840/http://irsme.nic.in/files/mmfiles/BRIDGES_RRB.pdf |date=5 March 2016 }}</ref> The engineer in charge of construction of the Dufferin Bridge was [[Frederick Walton (Engineer)|Frederick Thomas Granville Walton]], who went on to become the Engineer in Chief of the [[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway]] company.<ref name="en.wikisource">{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Indian_Biographical_Dictionary_%281915%29/Walton,_Frederick_Thomas_Granville |accessdate=29 October 2021| encyclopedia=The Indian Biographical Dictionary |title=Walton, Frederick Thomas Granville | author=C. Hayavadana Rao | year=1915 | publisher=Wikisource}}</ref> The bridge was renamed as the Malviya Bridge in 1948 after [[Madan Mohan Malaviya]]. As the bridge is near Rajghat, it is also locally known as Rajghat bridge. Malviya Bridge is between [[Kashi railway station|Kashi]], [[Varanasi Junction railway station|Varanasi Junction]] and [[Mughalsarai Junction railway station|Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction (Mughalsarai Junction)]] stations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/varanasi/Howrah-Exp-stranded-on-Malviya-bridge/articleshow/51705920.cms|title = Howrah Exp stranded on Malviya bridge | Varanasi News - Times of India}}</ref>

==In fiction==
In Rudyard Kipling's story ''The Bridge Builders'', the bridge is given the name [[Varanasi|Kashi]] Bridge, after the nearby city also known as Varanasi. Dufferin Bridge's opening ceremony was delayed because of floods; the Kashi bridge in the story also faces similar problems due to flooding just before it was opened to public.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_bridgebuilders1.htm|title = The Bridge-Builders}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of longest bridges in the world]]
*[[List of longest bridges above water in India]]

==References==

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==External links==
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| video1=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYS5d1zHGW8 Malviya Bridge-Kashi.avi]
| video2=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2xtZfaOaiM&feature=relmfu Duffrin Bridge.avi]
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[[Category:Buildings and structures in Varanasi]]
[[Category:Bridges in Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Bridges over the Ganges]]
[[Category:Bridges completed in 1887]]
[[Category:Memorials to Madan Mohan Malaviya]]
[[Category:Transport in Mughalsarai]]
[[Category:Transport in Varanasi]]
[[Category:Road-rail bridges in India]]
[[Category:Double-decker bridges]]
[[Category:Railway bridges in Uttar Pradesh]]

Malviya Bridge - Revision history

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