World's Highest Rail Bridge

In News: Marvel in Making’: Railway Minister Piyush Goyal had tweeted on the world’s highest rail bridge arch on Chenab in Jammu and Kashmir.

About World’s Highest Rail Bridge

The 476 metre-long steel arch, which is set to be the “world’s highest” railway bridge in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir.
It surpassed the record of the Beipan river Shuibai railway bridge (275 m) in China.
The arch bridge is a part railway project connecting Jammu and Kashmir to the rest of the country..
The ₹1,250-crore bridge will be 359 metres above the Chenab river bed
The overall length of the bridge is 1,315 metres.
Construction of the first three phases of the project has been completed and the line is in operational use for running of trains between Baramulla-Banihal in Kashmir valley and Jammu-Udhampur-Katra in Jammu region.
Three agencies; IRCON, KRCL and Northern Railway with extensive experience in the construction of rail lines are involved in this project.
Railway bridge will be able to withstand up to 8 magnitude earthquakes and high-intensity blasts.
It will be at a height 35 meters more than the Eiffel Tower in Paris and at five times the height of the Qutub Minar in Delhi.

Chenab River

River in northwestern India and northeastern and eastern Pakistan.
Formed by the confluence of two streams i.e. Chandra and Bhaga, in Himachal Pradesh.
It flows west through Jammu & Kashmir between Siwalik Range (south) and Lesser Himalayas (north).