HARDINGE BRIDGE

Hardinge Bridge is a steel  railway bridge over the river Padma located in western Bangladesh. It is named after Lord  Hardinge, who was the Viceroy of India from 1910 to 1916. The bridge is 1.8 kilometers long.The construction of a railway Bridge over the Padma was proposed in 1889 by the Eastern Benga l Railway for easier communication between Calcutta  and the then Eastern Bengal  and Assam. In 1902, Sir FJE Spring prepared a report on the bridge. A technical committee reported that a bridge could be constructed at Sara crossing the lower Ganges  between Paksey and  Bheramara Upazila stations on the broad gauge railway from Khulna to Parbatipur Upazila. The construction of the bridge started in 1910 and finished two years later.^[1] The bridge comprises 15 steel trusses. The main girders are modified 'Petit' type.