Anji Khad Bridge
Anji Khad Bridge under construction as of 2022
Coordinates	33°4′52″N 74°54′46″E / 33.08111°N 74.91278°E / 33.08111; 74.91278
Carries	Indian Railways
Crosses	Anji River, tributary of Chenab River between Katra and Reasi
Characteristics
Design	Cable-stayed
Material	Steel
Total length	473.25 m (1,552.7 ft)[1]
Height	(river bed to formation) 196 m (643 ft)[1]
Longest span	290 m (950 ft)
No. of spans	3
History
Designer	Hindustan Construction Company
Location

Udhampur–Srinagar– Baramula Rail Link (USBRL)
Legend
km 338 Baramulla Uri (inprogress) (inprogress) Kupwara Line (inprogress)   Kupwara Bandipora Line (proposed) 330 Sopore 323 Hamre 315 Pattan 307 Mazhom 297 Nadigam Budgam–Leh–Bhanupli line (planned) 292 Budgam 281 Srinagar 275 Pampore Jhelum Bridge 269 Kakapora 264 Ratnipora 259 Awantipora 252 Panzgom Shopian Line (inprogress) 245 Bijbehara to Pahalgam (inprogress) 238 Anantnag 231 Sadura 226 Qazigund Hillar Shahabad Banihal-Qazigund Railway Tunnel (11.215 km) 208 Banihal Tunnels T54-T55 Tunnel T53 (2.71 km) Tunnel T52 (8.61 km) Tunnel T51 Khari Tunnel T50 (12.775 km) Sumber Tunnel T49 (10.178 km) Tunnel T48 (2.242 km) Tunnels T46-T47 Tunnel T45 (2.733 km) Sangaldan Tunnel T44 (11.13 km) Tunnel T43 (6.292 km) Sawalkote Tunnel T42 (9.316 km) Dugga Tunnel T41 (2.127 km) Tunnels T38-T40 Tunnel T37 (3.493 km) Chenab Rail Bridge Bakkal Tunnel T36 (5.941 km) Reasi Tunnel T35 (3.007 km) Anji Khad Bridge Tunnel T34 (5.098 km) Tunnel T33 (3.209 km) Tunnels T31-T32 Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Tunnels T26-T30 Tunnel T25 (2.497 km) 62 Chak Rakhwal Tunnel T24 Tunnel T23 (3.12 km) Tunnels T21-T22 Bhaderwah Line (planned) 53 Udhampur 44 Ramnagar Tunnels T14-T20 Tawi Bridge 22 Manwal Tunnels T10-T13 14 Sangar Tunnels T8-T9 Tunnel T7 (2.4 km) Tunnels T4-T6 10 Bajalta Tunnels T1-T3 Poonch line (planned) 0 Jammu Tawi Jalandhar–Jammu line km
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The Anji Khad bridge is a cable-stayed bridge connecting the Katra and Reasi sections of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla-Rail-Link (USBRL) in the Jammu Division of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

The bridge lies south of the Chenab Bridge, near Reasi, where the railway line crosses the deep chasm ('Khad' in Hindi) of the Anji River. It is India's first cable-stayed railway bridge. It has been built by Hindustan Construction Company, and is widely regarded as an engineering marvel of modern India.

The Anji Khad bridge was initially proposed to be an arch bridge. It was designed as a long steel arches span bridge. Its total length was to be 473 m (1,552 ft), with a main arch span of 265 m (869 ft), and a deck height of 189 m (620 ft). Quality aspects, construction standards, indigenous materials, and the painting scheme were proposed to be similar to the Chenab Bridge. Later, a committee headed by a former railway board chairman recommended that the location was not suitable for an arch bridge. In particular, the unstable geology of the Himalayan mountains combined with the steepness of the sides of the gorge made an arch bridge impractical.^[2]

In October 2016, Indian Railways decided to build a cable-stayed bridge at Anji Khad, ^[3] with a striking asymmetrical design supported by 96 cables anchored to a single pylon on the Reasi side, of height 193 m from its foundation. ^[4] The initial cost of the project was set at ₹458 crore. As per the design, the bridge connects tunnels T34 and T35 on the Katra and Reasi sides respectively. It has a 290 meter main span at a height of 331 m above the riverbed.^[5] The main section has a length 473.25 meters out of a total length of over 1,300 meters, with a 120 meter long viaduct.

• January 2017: [ITALFER] to construct cable-stayed Anji Khad Bridge. The work is planned to be completed in 36 months.^[6]

• March 2021: The construction of the single pylon to which the cables will be anchored is completed.^[7]

• January 2022: It is now proposed that the bridge will be completed within a year, i.e. by December 2022.^[8]

• April 2023: All 96 cables have been attached, and the bridge stands nearly completed with associated track laying and fine tuning work to be completed in the following few months.^[9]

• August 2023: A trial run was successfully completed.^[10]

• December 2024: In anticipation of the commissioning of the railway line in early 2025, load testing of the bridge was performed, by moving a heavily loaded goods train onto the bridge, along with heavily loaded trucks onto the parallel service roadway on the bridge.

• January 2025: Speed trials up to 110 kmph were carried out on the bridge on Jan. 8, 2025.

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