Bridge Name: | Rupsha Railway Bridge |
Native Name: | রুপসা রেল সেতু |
Carries: | Broad-Gauge Rail-line |
Crosses: | Rupsha River |
Locale: | Labanchara-Khulna Metro Area & Khanrabad, Batiaghata Upazila, Khulna District, Bangladesh |
Owner: | Bangladesh Railway |
Length: | 5.13km (03.19miles) |
Open: | June, 2023 |
Coordinates: | 22.7641°N 89.579°W |
Rupsha Railway Bridge is a railway bridge on Rupsha River . This bridge connects Khulna with Port of Mongla by railway network.[1] Bangladesh Railway and Indian Larsen & Toubro Limited signed an agreement to construct the bridge.[2] The bridge total length long.[3]
Khulna-Mongla Railway Project was passed by ECNEC on 21 December 2010. This project is divided into three parts. First one is to construct the railway, second one is to build a bridge over Rupsha and third one is to construct the signaling system. Estimated cost of this project is 1,076.445 crore taka. The bridge has 7 nos. of 102.4m long Double Warren Open-web Truss Girders with 136 nos. of 32.2 m long Composite Plate Girders for Viaducts on either side. This project will be finished in 2024.[4] STUP Consultants P Limited of India is the Engineering Consultants for Design and Construction Supervision Services. STUP Consultants got associated with this Project since 1 January 2018. The construction work of the bridge was completed on 25 June 2022.[5]