Hardinge Bridge

Hardinge Bridge is a metallic railway bridge over the river Padma placed at Paksey, Ishwardi, Pabna in western Bangladesh. It is known as after Lord Hardinge, who changed into the Viceroy of India from 1910 to 1916. The bridge is 1.8 kilometres long. The construction of a railway bridge over the Padma changed into proposed in 1889 through the Eastern Bengal Railway for less complicated verbal exchange among Calcutta and the then Eastern Bengal and Assam. In 1902, Sir FJE Spring organized a document at the bridge. A technical committee stated that a bridge may be built at Sara crossing the lower Ganges between the Paksey and Bheramara Upazila stations on the vast gauge railway from Khulna to Parbatipur Upazila.

The production of the bridge began in 1910 and completed years later. The bridge comprises 15 steel trusses. The most important girders are modified Petit type. The maximum difficult challenge of the operation turned into to prevent financial institution erosion and to make the river waft completely under the bridge. For this, two guide banks of the "Bell-bund" type named after J. R. Bell have been built on both side, every extending 910 metres upstream and 300 metres downstream from the bridge. The ends of the river banks had been curved inward and closely pitched with stone. Construction of the through truss bridge started out in 1910, though it changed into proposed at least twenty years earlier. It became built via Braithwaite and Kirk Company based on layout of Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel. It become finished in 1912, and trains started out shifting on it in 1915.