Pamban Bridge

The Pamban Bridge is a Cantilever(a beam anchored only at one end) Bridge on the Palk Strait connecting Rameswaram on Pamban Island to Mainland India

It refers to both the Road Bridge and the Cantilever Railway Bridge, though primarily it means the latter.

It was India's first sea bridge. It is the Second Longest Sea Bridge in India (after Bandra -Worli Sea Link)  at a length of about 2.3 km.

The Railways approached Scherzer, a German Engineer, who designed and built the famous 65.23 metre long rolling type lift span, which opens up to pave way for the vessels to pass through like a pair of scissors.

After the erection of rolling lift centre span in 1913, the bridge was thrown open to traffic on February 24, 1914.

The railway bridge is 6,776 ft (2,065 m)and was opened for traffic in 1914.The railway bridge historically carried metre-gauge trains on it, but Indian Railways upgraded the bridge to carry broad-gauge trains in a project that finished Aug. 12, 2007.

Pamban Road Bridge

The 2.5 Km bridge built in 1987 was named 'Annai Indira Gandhi Bridge'.The bridge was formally opened to traffic by the Honourable Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi on October 2, 1988