Ground work for removing Scherzer span of Pamban old rail bridge begins

Preliminary works for dismantling the Scherzer span of Pamban aged obstruction span began connected Wednesday.

Even arsenic workers and engineers of a backstage contractor began the dismantling enactment astatine the centre span of the 2.05 km-long robust span implicit the oversea channel, Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) engineers were seen overseeing the work.

An authoritative privy to the task, said that RVNL officials would supply each the enactment to the contractor successful maintaining the treble cantilever trusses successful the horizontal presumption to facilitate cutting the robust structure.

“We bash not privation the 225-foot agelong span to unfastened vertically owed to value of the counter-weights erstwhile parts of the operation is chopped down. All precautionary measures are being taken to guarantee this,” the authoritative said.

The workers would chopped down the robust structures utilizing state cutters.

The enactment has been planned for completion by May.