Train over the longest bridge of Konkan Railway at top speed : Hill-top view!
One of the fastest diesel hauled passenger trains on IR network, Mangalore Madgaon "superfast" passenger cruising over the three bridges over the Shravarthi river at MPS, powered by a WDG-3A from Ernakulam shed. This amazing engineering marvel consistinf of three bridges over the mighty Sharavathi river was completed way back in 1994. The Sharavati "B" bridge is the longest which is a whopping 2060m long. Along with this Sharavati "B"bridge, there are Sharavati "A" and "C" bridges respectively and totally, it takes three bridges and almost three kilometres to cross the mighty Sharavati River. Here, the late running train was doing close to 90 kmph which is the...
more... section MPS during monsoon TT of KR! During non-monsoon season, one can see trains blasting through here at flat 110 kmph!
Train : 56640 Mangalore Madgaon passenger
Loco : ERS WDG-3A#13222
Location : Sharavathi river bridge, Konkan Railways.
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