The bridge considered in this study is a brick masonry arch bridge built in the 1870s on a meter gauge section that is now a major broad gauge line. The bridge consists of two major arches across a waterfall with spans of 17.7 and 17.3 m at the springing level and a few smaller arches of approximately 7.7 m that are land arches and are partially closed. The carriage width of the bridge is 8.8 m, and is slightly curved in plan having a steep rising gradient of 1 in 30. The railway line alignment is eccentric with respect to the bridge centerline. The arch has a central rise of about 4.5 m. The rings of the arch are about 0.93 m in thickness across the arch barrel, with a brick masonry facing on either side rising up to the top of the bridge with a parapet of a meter height on either side. The abutments and piers appear to consist of brick masonry that was encased in RC during an earlier intervention. The piers and abutments rest on bed rock.
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