Pamban Rail Bridge Rameshwaram Opens up for Ship Crossing

Pamban Sea Bridge connects Mandapam Mainland to Pambam. The Bridge can be opened to allow Ships and Ferrry to pass through. It consist of two leafs which can be opened manually using levers.

[younasmohammad-edqw]

Excellent superb fantastic, your camera work, live sene recording, I never seen your best shoot before in discovery and national geographic channel, welldone

[amypeterson]

Hand cranked!?? And the track ends fit perfectly together at the end. The Pamban Bridge is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Thank you for the video.

[jitendramohapatra]

I have experienced to see such an amazing bridge first in the year 1993 while travelling to Rameswaram and Madurai and this video once again refreshed my memory...

[Mangal_x]

I have seen it opening and closing !!! It was nearly an half hour process !!
But really FANTASTIC 😎

[talkieskhabar]

Proud to be an All credit goes to the Indian engineers and Indian railways....💪💪💪💪💪

[shetemaroti]

Being an offshore structure design engineer I have the following suggestions for better performance and long service life of bridge:
1.This bridge is situated in sea & subjected to marine environment which is saline and moist and prone to corrosion. So protective coating/painting requires to be done periodically to prevent corrosion as per ISO:12944 & NACE guidelines and to increase the service life of bridge.
2.Also bridge is subject to fatigue due to action of waves and wind . Bridge needs to be checked periodically for development of cracks in steel girder of the bridge to prevent the failure due to fatigue. Bridge needs to designed for Vortex Induced Vibration (VIV) due wind and fatigue thereof.
3.The pins of bridge are also subjected to rolling action due to frequently opening and closing & horizontal movement of bridge. So Self self lubricating/PTFE bearing shall be used for end movements of bridge.
4. For Bolted connection, the bolts shall be covered with anti rust grease cap to avoid crevice corrosion. Alternatively SS 314 nut bolts shall be used in stead of steel nut bolts.
5.Steel material used for bridge shall be fully killed and tested for impact strength.
I hope if we take care of bridge, bridge will take care of us.

[p.k.rajagopalnair]

The Pamban Rail bridge is opening manually to facilitate the moment of
ships and boats, as the rails are set right for the movement of trains. The
process appeared to be so tedious and time consuming. An engineering
marvel indeed.

[tyagarajudharmapuri]

Hats off to engineers. MARVELLOUS construction

[dilipnagar]

बहुत खूब भईया जी प्रभु की क्रेपा से मुझे भी प्रभु भगवान रामेश्वरम के दर्सन का सौ भाग प्राप्त होने जा रहा है

[lramanathan]

Wonderful technology used during British period. Hats off to the persons who worked to build and who maintains now....

[Durgeshyadav-ytin]

Indian govt should maintain this spectacular Structure.

[rajgoutam]

Kya Khoob quality e se Banai Hui video hai aapki aapka bahut bahut dhanyvad Sitaram

[ananthaiyer]

Superb video - the camera man shows the wisdom on zooming on relevant sections of the operation - showing the rails join was amazing

[gamingbro]

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[keerthanakeerthi]

Hats off to the works behind this invention..best one ❤️✨

[darlylivingstone]

இயேசு மெய்யான தெய்வம். மோட்சம் போகும் வழி இயேசு.

[sangeethabalakrishnan]

Proud to be an Indian. A salute to our Indian engineer s

[kodesankararao]

It is a miracle. Salute to our engineers.

[raj-mvth]

Great engineering work 👍 .. Your camera shoot is excellent 👌 brother

[PP-miik]

The manual working of lifting up and lowering down of this bridge is so painful.They can use some motors and hydraulic machines instead of manual hard work
It is the time to think about of operating it with the electricity and motors