India is building the world's highest railway bridge in the Himalayas

You don't get much higher than the Himalayas, and Indian engineers are currently building the world's highest railway bridge there. And not only is it high up, it's also massive standing 35 meters tall.

The current railway bridge record holder travels over the Beipanjiang River in China's Guizhou province. It stands 275 meters high. This new bridge over the Chenab River will be 359 meters high making it the clear winner on completion in December 2016. It currently takes 13 hours to travel between Baramulla to Jammu in the north of India. Once the bridge is complete that journey time will be cut to just over 6 hours on the new Kashmir Railway.

The construction of the link is nothing if not impressive and has been ongoing since 2002. The bridge section will use 25,000 tonnes of steel across its 1,315 meter length, and will mostly be constructed using two cable cranes that travel between two pylons on opposite sides of the river.

Source: Business Insider