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Watch: In A Historic Moment, First Freight Train Runs On India’s Longest Road-Cum-Rail Bridge

Swarajya StaffDec 02, 2018, 04:44 PM | Updated 04:44 PM IST

Image courtesy of twitter.com/akushalsaikia. 



The bridge - the second longest in Asia by some accounts - is 4.94-km-long and 32 metres above the water level of the Brahmaputra. It has three-lane roads on top and a double line rail in the lower section. Its design is based on a sea-crossing bridge that links Sweden and Denmark.


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