{"id":635994,"date":"2024-02-23T10:44:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T05:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=635994"},"modified":"2024-02-23T13:06:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T07:36:04","slug":"pamban-railway-bridge-indias-first-vertical-lift-bridge-nears-completion-a-testament-to-rvnls-engineering-prowess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pamban-railway-bridge-indias-first-vertical-lift-bridge-nears-completion-a-testament-to-rvnls-engineering-prowess\/","title":{"rendered":"Pamban Railway Bridge: India\u2019s first vertical-lift bridge nears completion! A testament to RVNL\u2019s engineering prowess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Railway Board Chairperson, Jaya Varma Sinha, on Thursday (February 22) informed that the India\u2019s inaugural vertical-lift bridge, the Pamban railway bridge, connecting the mainland to Rameswaram Island, is nearing operational readiness. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes following her visit to Rameswaram to assess the project\u2019s progress. In a conversation with PTUI, Varma said the reconstruction is progressing well, and we anticipate resuming services very soon. <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, she commended the dedicated efforts of the team in overcoming numerous challenges associated with constructing a first-of-its-kind vertical-lift bridge over the turbulent sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Railway Board Chairperson, Jaya Varma Sinha, on Thursday (February 22) informed that the India\u2019s inaugural vertical-lift bridge, the Pamban railway bridge, connecting the mainland to Rameswaram Island, is nearing operational readiness. The announcement comes following her visit to Rameswaram to assess the project\u2019s progress. In a conversation with PTUI, Varma said the reconstruction is progressing well, and we anticipate resuming services very soon. Moreover, she commended the dedicated efforts of the team in overcoming numerous challenges associated with constructing a first-of-its-kind vertical-lift bridge over the turbulent sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}