The History Of Howrah Bridge

                                 

The iconic Howrah Bridge became seventy-five on Saturday. On the night time of February 3, 1943, the bridge — believed to be the goal of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force — used to be open to the public. A quick records of the shape that displays the pulse of the city:

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The Howrah Bridge Act, 1926, used to be enacted to supply for construction, protection and manage of a new bridge throughout the river Hooghly between Kolkata and Howrah
The Commissioners for the Port of Calcutta had been made the Commissioners for the bridge
The Kolkata Port Trust is now the custodian of the bridge
It is 2,150 ft long, with a clear span of 1,500 feet, and the best possible factor is 300 ft above floor level
A tramcar used to be the first car to roll down from the city-end to the station-end
It used to be the 1/3 greatest cantilever bridge at the time of its launch
Consulting engineers, Rendel Palmer & Tritton, dealt with the construction. Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company of Darlington had been the contractors
Around 3,000 tonnes of metal and a range of one of a kind objects had been made in England
In 2003, paan-spit and chicken droppings have been observed to have broken the fitness of the structure
The Kolkata Port Trust supplied Rs 6.5 million to paint 2.2 million sq metres of the bridge. Around 26,500 litres of paint was once used
An inspection in 2011 confirmed spitting had decreased the thickness of the bridge from six millimetres to much less than three millimetres
Between 2013 and 2016 the expenditure for common annual renovation used to be round Rs 25 million
Around 100,000 cars and 150,000 pedestrians use it on a day by day groundwork 

Tata Steel (then Tata Iron & Steel Company) provided 23,500 tonnes of steel. The fabrication used to be executed by way of Braithwaite, Burn & Jessop Construction at 4 one-of-a-kind retail outlets in Kolkata