Muneer Mangi

a month ago

Review

it's only successful bridge of Asia in Pakistan and it's only old Bridge. there is many people it. they are committed on it.

Zubair Shah

a month ago

Review

Passing through this bridge and looking at scenic view of Sindh River is quite an amazing experience.

Aftab Αh

2 months ago

Review

Beautiful bridge, the Lansdowne Bridge is a 19th century bridge that spans the Indus River between the cities of Sukkur and Rohri, in the Sindh province of Pakistan. When completed in 1889, the bridge was the "longest rigid girder bridge in the world." The Ayub Bridge was built immediately adjacent to the bridge in 1962, and so photographs of the Landsdown Bridge usually also show the Ayub Bridge. The Indus Valley State Railway had reached Sukkur in 1879 and the steam ferry that transported eight wagons at a time across the Indus between Rohri and Sukkur was found to be cumbersome and time-consuming. The ferry link became redundant when Lord Reay, Governor of Bombay, deputizing for Lord Lansdowne the viceroy, inaugurated the Bridge on March 25, 1889. As summer comes early to Sukkur and the heavy European-style uniforms of the time would have been uncomfortable, the opening ceremony took place early in the morning. At the ceremony, Lord Reay unlocked a highly ornamental padlock (designed by J.L. Kipling, CIE, Principal of the Mayo School of Art in Lahore and father of Joseph Rudyard, the famous poet and author) which held shut the cumbersome iron gates guarding entry to the bridge. The gathered dignitaries then walked across the bridge and adjourned to breakfast followed by toasts under a shaman (Berridge 1967:128). The bridge provided the railway link between Lahore, in the heart of the granary of British India, and the port of Karachi on the Arabian Sea. When the great steel Ayub arch was constructed (1960–1962), railway traffic was shifted there. About a hundred feet apart, the two bridges seem like one from a distance. The Ayub arch became the world's third longest railway arch span and the first bridge in the world to have "the railway desk slung on coiled wire rope suspenders." The consulting engineer was David B. Steinman[4] of New York, proponent of 'vocational aesthetics'. It cost about two crore rupees and the foundation stone was laid on December 9, 1960. It was opened by President Muhammad Ayub Khan on May 6, 1962.

ammar khan

in the last week

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Historical Place Nice view beautiful Environment

Nisar Balhro Sindhi

5 months ago

Review

Lansdowne Bridge is accompanied by one rail road bridge named Ayub Bridge. Both of them are parallel and there is only few feet distance between them. Steel structures are not common in Indo-Pak region so it is good to see these steel bridges. Poor maintance has badly affected the bridges. But it is still worth while to visit and see the structure. Due to poor law and order situation, visits after evening must be avoided.