India Joins The Superlative Club, With The World's Highest Rail Bridge

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Touted as the next man-made wonder, the world's highest rail bridge being built across Chenab riverbed in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir will take at least three more years to be functional.

Railway officials say the bridge, which is five times more than Delhi's Qutub Minar and way higher than the Eiffel Tower in Paris, will be completed by December 2016.

The arch bridge will connect Baramulla to Jammu via Udhampur-Katra-Qazigund with a travel time of six-and-a-half hours.

Currently, it takes exactly double the time - 13 hours - to reach Jammu from Baramulla in northern Kashmir, which is 60 km from Srinagar. The construction of the bridge started in 2002 when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the prime minister.

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