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The Coronation Bridge, also known as the 
The Coronation Bridge, also known as the Sevoke
Sevoke (also Sevok or Sivok) is a small town near Siliguri in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal state of India near the border with Sikkim state. Situated in Dooars, Sevoke lies on the bank of River Teesta and has two bridges − namely ...
Roadway Bridge, in West Bengal
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, India
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, spans across the Teesta River
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, connecting the districts of Darjeeling
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and Kalimpong
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. The bridge is a part of the National Highway 17
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'' H 31 (old)'' This bridge runs parallel to Sevoke Railway Bridge
Sevoke Railway Bridge is the railway bridge on River Teesta near Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary at Sevoke, West Bengal, India. The railway bridge is about 1 kilometre long and connects Darjeeling district with Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. T ...
which is around 2 Kms away from coronation bridge in River Teesta
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.
It was named to commemorate the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
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in 1937 and was completed in 1941 at a cost of Rs 6 lakhs. The foundation stone of the bridge was laid by John Anderson John Anderson may refer to:
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*John Anderson (Scottish businessman) (1747–1820), Scottish merchant and founder of Fermoy, Ireland
* John Byers Anderson (1817–1897), American educator, military officer and railroad executive, mentor of ...
, the-then Governor of Bengal in 1937.
Locals call the bridge ''Baghpool'', meaning ''tiger bridge'', because of the two tiger statues (bagh actually means tiger) at one entrance of the bridge.
John Chambers, the last British executive Engineer of the Darjeeling Division Public works department
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* Public works
* Ministry or Board of Public Works, the imperial Chinese ministry overseeing public projects from the Tan ...
(PWD), carried out the design, drawing and planning of the bridge. Messrs J.C. Gammon, from Bombay
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, was the contractor. The bridge was built on the Reinforced Concrete system. Since it was not possible to obtain support from the Teesta river bed due to the depth and current of water, the entire bridge was supported by a fixed arch, which had its two ends fixed on rock layers on either side of the river.
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