Jammu, Feb. 11 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the train to Kashmir Valley on February 17 to fulfil the over 70-year-old dream of a rail service to the landlocked valley. With its commercial inauguration by PM Modi, the Vande Bharat train will chug on the most ambitious railway project ever built in India and one of the most difficult and challenging tracks in the world.

The Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) project is a technological marvel that includes India's first cable-stayed Anji Khad Bridge that has a 331-metre high pylon. The Chenab Railway Bridge is the tallest railway bridge in the world, standing 359 metres above the river bed.

This bridge is also the world's highest arch bridge. The USBRL include...