Chiniot Railway / road bridge

constructed by Britishers in Year 1877.

Old Attock bridge Attock end

Till the new bridge came up, people used to travel to peshawar via this bridge, the top has the railway track and the road is in the centre.

Salt range on the M2 Motorwayhas a  unique geographical featuresand also rich in archeological landmarks. This bridge on Salt range is said to be among the tallest in Asia.

Lansdowne & Ayub Bridge on the Indus at Sukkur – Quite Possiby the Most famous Bridge(s) in Pakistan.

- The Lansdowne Bridge over the Indus at Sukkur was one of the great engineering feats in the 19th century. The longest cantilever bridge ever built, it had to support the load of heavy steam locomotives.

At Sukkur the river Indus flows through a gap in a range of low limestone hills and gets divided into two channels (Sukkur and Rohri channels) by an island called Bukkur. The Bukkur island thus provides the best spot for a river crossing. See the satellite photo below, which shows two river channels between Sukkur and Rohri.

The river channel between Sukkur and Bukkur got bridged by March 25, 1889 . The river bottom here is rocky so it provided solid foundations for masonry piers. This bridge got completed with three girder spans of 90, 230 and 270 feet

Waddell, a well known bridge engineer of USA once said:

The appearence of the cantilever bridge at Sukkur is bizarre in the extreme and the structure is economical in neither weight of material nor cost of shopwork.

The publication of Engineer of July 11, 1884 was even more outspoken:

Contemplating the monstrosity of the general design, one would expect that in point of economy and detail construction, a fair degree of excellence had been attained. But neither is this the case. There are many ways of reducing the unsupported lengths of the great uprights and raking struts, and consequently of reducing material; but as these would involve some calculations of stresses beyond those of the most elementary kind, they were probably not deemed worth the trouble…. A derrick, the half of an English roof-truss, a Whipple girder, the other half of the roof-truss and another derrick, are very excellent things in thmeselves, but to string them together upon one line, thereby making a bridge, is not engineering, nor is it architecture.

One of the bridges on the Indus River in Chilas, NWFP. Suspension bridges like these have been created in dozens by the Pakistani Govt

The bridge that signifies the last border of Punjab heading towards Mirpur, in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.

The Malir River Bridge is to date Pakistan’s largest bridge which spans 5000 meters. This bridge was inaugurated by Governor of Sindh Dr Ishrat ul Ibad on Wednesday 4th February 2009.The cost of the bridge is PKR 1.2 billion or USD 14 million funded by the Government of Pakistan.The bridge has shortened the distance by 28 km for the residents of Korangi, Landhi and Shah Faisal towns.While construction 42 houses were demolished and the owners were compensated by the government.

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