Девяти арочный мост. Шри Ланка. Arches Bridge. Train trip by railroad in Ella. Sri Lanka
The Nine Arches Bridge (Sinhala: ආරකක නමය පලම, ) also called the Bridge in the Sky, 3 is a viaduct bridge in Sri Lanka. It is one of the best examples of colonialera railway construction in the The construction of the bridge is generally attributed to a local Ceylonese builder, P. K. Appuhami, in consultation with British The chief designer and project manager of the upcountry railway line of Ceylon project was D. J. Wimalasurendra, a distinguished Ceylonese engineer and inventor. The designer of the viaduct was Harold Cuthbert Marwood of Railway Construction Department of Ceylon Government Railway. The 1923 report titled Construction of a Concrete Railway Viaduct in Ceylon published by the Engineering Association of Ceylon has details of all the records including the plans and drawings. 7 It is located in Demodara, between Ella and Demodara railway statio
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