Prime Minister of India inaugurated the Bogibeel Bridge, India’s longest rail-road bridge, connecting the north and south banks of the Brahmaputra, falling in the eastern part of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, on December 25, 2018.
The Prime Minister flagged off an Intercity Express between Tinsukia in Assam and Naharlagun in Arunachal Pradesh. The train will run five days a week.
The overpass constructed by railways, is in Assam and is a combined road and rail bridge 32 meters above the water level of River Brahmaputra - precisely between the districts of Dhemaji and Dibrugarh. The bridge is 4.94-km long.
It will be the second largest bridge in Asia with three-lane roads on top and a double-line railway track below.
