Ramanathapuram, April 6 -- Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi visited the Swamy Temple in Rameswaram ahead of the inauguration of the New Pambam Railway Bridge. The bridge is set to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The 2.07-kilometre-long New Pamban Bridge, spanning the Palk Strait in Tamil Nadu, is India's first vertical lift sea bridge.

The bridge has one vertical lift spanning 72.5 metres with two tracks. The approach has 88 spans of 18.3-metre steel plate girders fabricated for a single line.

The bridge's story traces back to 1914, when British engineers constructed the original Pamban bridge. A cantilever (a long piece of metal or wood that extends from a wall to support the end of a bridge) structure with a Scherzer Rolli...