Trishuli Bazar (Bidor), Nawakot, Nepal
Location
N 27°53’33.00”
E 85°09’39.72”
Date 1900
Span 36.6m (120 feet)
Width 1.2m (4 feet).
Designed by Louis Harper (1868-1940)
Manufactured by Harpers Limited, Craiginches Ironworks, Aberdeen
Built 1900, Nepal Military.
Status: Replaced by Road Bridge, 1972
Evidence that this was a Harper bridge: Definite
The bridge here was the first ‘modern’ suspension bridge in Nepal. By this was meant a bridge with towers or pylons. It was erected by the army in 1900 and around this date Harpers supplied 7 bridge kits for the army to site under Brigadier Kumar Nursingh Rana*. Others followed up until 1909. In this period, Harpers were the sole providers of suspension bridges in Nepal. The photographs below show the bridge under construction and completed.
*River, Railway and Ravine, 2015 D.R.Harper. p114.
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The bridge above was attributed by Louis Harper to Trishuli, and may be the predecessor of the present bridge over the Tadi. Like all the bridges we encountered in Nepal, it's 4 feet in width. A second (below) was also attributed to Trishuli, and so is included on this page. However, since its width is 6 feet, it is more likely to be in northern India.
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