Independence Day 2022: Tiranga flies atop Chenab Bridge, world's highest railway bridge

The national flag is proudly flying from every major landmark across the country, and one of them is the newly-completed Chenab bridge - the world's highest railway bridge.

The 'Golden Joint' of the Chenab railway bridge was launched on Saturday, and workers decked it with the national flag to celebrate 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav'. Ever since, videos and pictures of the bridge have been viewed and liked many times on social media platforms.

A 40-second video released by the Ministry of railways on that occasion showed the workers celebrating and hoisting the Tiranga with love and pride right in the middle of the bridge at the golden joint.


The term 'golden joint' was coined by civil engineers. From the two ends of the Chenab River valley, the bridge superstructure on the arch was gradually pushed so that it eventually connected at the centre of the arch.

The Chenab bridge is part of the ambitious 272-km long railway line from Udhampur to Baramulla - named the 'Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link Project' - joining Jammu with the Kashmir valley as an all-weather highspeed alternative.

The 272-km long railway line will have 38 tunnels - a total length of 119 km - with the country's longest tunnel T-49 (12.75 km), and 927 big and small bridges (total length of 13 km) part of it.

The place near the Chenab bridge often witnesses hostile weather conditions, and so a sophisticated automatic signalling system installed on both sides will stop the trains from crossing the bridge if wind speeds there touch 90 kph.