Notes:

• Completed in January 2024 to replace the suspension bridge destroyed by an October 2023 flood.
• Replaced Sangkalang (Sanklang) - Sangkalang, Mangan (मंगन), Sikkim, India.
• Next to Sangkalang (Saklang) - Sangkalang, Mangan (मंगन), Sikkim, India.
• All past and present bridges at this location.

Notes:

• At (or near) former location of Singtam - Singtam (सिंगतम) and Adarsh Gaon, Sikkim, India. The 2024 bridge replaced an arch bridge destroyed in an October 2023 flood. The arch bridge had replaced the older suspension bridge.
• All past and present bridges at this location.

External Links:

• YouTube - BRO Re-constructs Indrani Bridge to Link East and West Sikkim: A Triumph of Engineering & Resilience. Video covering the bridges inauguration. Posted August 11, 2024.

Notes:

• Near (footbridge) - Namthang (नामथाङ), Namchi and Bagheykhola (बघेय्खोला), Sikkim, India.

External Links:

• Facebook - Hanging bridge at Rangpo ,Sikkim. Image of the bridge. Posted December 15, 2013.
• Google Maps. Image of the bridge. Dated December 2021.

External Links:

• Google Maps - Mining Bridge. Image of the bridge towers. Dated October 2017.
• Google Maps - Mining Bridge. Image of a remnant suspension bridge tower in the distance beyond the current box girder bridge. Dated March 2020.
• Google Maps - Mining Bridge. Image of a remnant bridge tower. Dated July 2019.

Notes:

• 2018: Deck and cables removed.
• Next to 2024 Sangkalang (Saklang) - Sangkalang, Mangan (मंगन), Sikkim, India.
• Next to Sangkalang (Sanklang) - Sangkalang, Mangan (मंगन), Sikkim, India.
• All past and present bridges at this location.

External Links:

• Facebook. Image of the two suspension bridges with the older suspension bridge (removed in 2018) in the background. Posted February 7, 2014.
• Facebook. Image of the two suspension bridges with the older suspension bridge (removed in 2018) on the left. Posted May 12, 2013.
• Facebook. Image of the bridge being dismantled. Posted February 5, 2018.

Notes:

• 2023, October: Destroyed by flood.
• Next to Sangkalang (Saklang) - Sangkalang, Mangan (मंगन), Sikkim, India.
• Replaced by 2024 Sangkalang (Saklang) - Sangkalang, Mangan (मंगन), Sikkim, India.
• All past and present bridges at this location.

External Links:

• Facebook. Video showing construction of a temporary bamboo replacement bridge using the towers of the older suspension bridge. Posted October 12, 2023. "The locals in Sankalang, North Sikkim with the help of RDD Engineers undertook the remarkable task of constructing a cane bridge under perilous circumstances."
• Facebook - Sang Sangkalang bridge collapsed. Image showing the larger, newer suspension bridge (metal towers) destroyed by floodwaters. A surviving tower from the adjacent, older suspension bridge is also visible. Posted October 4, 2023.
• India Today NE - Sikkim: Construction of bamboo suspension foot bridge completed at Sangkalang. Article and photo of the completed temporary bamboo replacement bridge. October 13, 2023.

Notes:

• Later at same location 2024 Singtam - Singtam (सिंगतम) and Adarsh Gaon, Sikkim, India. The 2024 suspension bridge replaced the arch bridge seen in several of the external links. The arch bridge was destroyed by a flash flood in October 2023.
• All past and present bridges at this location.

External Links:

• Facebook. Image of the bridge. Posted December 27, 2014.
• Facebook. Image of the bridge. Posted September 29, 2014.
• Facebook. Image of the bridge. Posted September 7, 2014.
• Facebook. Image of the replacement arch bridge with suspension bridge visible behind it. Posted June 7, 2020 but is an older image.
• Facebook. Image of the suspension bridge and nearly completed arch bridge. Posted November 29, 2011.
• Facebook. Image of the bridge. Posted August 24, 2015 but is an older image.
• Google Maps. Image of the arch bridge with extant suspension bridge tower visible along left edge. Dated January 2022.
• Google Maps. Image of the arch bridge with extant suspension bridge tower visible behind the arch bridge. Dated January 2022.
• X (Twitter). Image of the arch bridge with partially dismantled suspension bridge visible. Posted February 3, 2016.

Notes:

• Bailey-style suspension bridge built in the late 1960s or early 1970s on the same alignment of an older suspension bridge that had been replaced in 1933 by a non-suspension bridge. The steel towers of the Bailey-style suspension bridge are still standing (as of the mid-2020s) and remnants of the stone towers of the older suspension bridge are still standing below the steel towers.
• At former location of Teesta Bazaar (Tista Bazar) - Teesta Bazaar (তিস্তা বাজার) and Kalimpong (কালিম্পং), West Bengal, India.
• All past and present bridges at this location.

External Links:

• Facebook - Tista Bazar Bridge, the life line of Sikkim and Kalimpong. A pictorial chronology.. Post detailing the history of bridges at Teesta Bazaar. Suggests the older suspension bridge was possibly built in the 1890s. It was replaced by the Anderson Bridge, a concrete arch bridge, in the 1930s. The Anderson Bridge was destroyed in 1968 and replaced with the Bailey-style suspension bridge.
• Flickr - Over Looking Tista Bridge. Image of a family posing in front of the Bailey-style steel suspension bridge. The bottom half of the older suspension bridge's tower is seen under the steel bridge.
• Flickr - Remains of “new “ Teesta Bridge at Teesta Bazaar. Image of the remains of the Bailey-style suspension bridge. Patrick S. O'Donnell notes the east tower of the old suspension bridge is seen (on the right side of the image) immediately in front of the Bailey suspension bridge tower. The west tower is obscured by trees and vegetation with the main cable saddles of the Bailey suspension bridge barely visible.
• Flickr - Teesta Bridge. Image of the Bailey-style suspension bridge. Remnants of the older suspension bridge's towers are visible under the steel bridge.
• Google Maps. Street view image with the steel tower of the Bailey-style suspension bridge visible in the foreground. In the distance, the other steel tower is seen built on top of the pier of the older Teesta Bazaar suspension bridge.
• Upesh Pradhan - The Old Bailey Bridge | Demo Tape. Video tribute to the Bailey suspension bridge. Posted June 23, 2022.

Notes:

• Possibly constructed in the 1890s. Replaced by the Anderson Bridge, a concrete arch bridge, in 1933. The Anderson Bridge was destroyed in 1968 and replaced by a Bailey-style suspension bridge built on the same alignment as the older suspension bridge. The steel towers of the Bailey-style suspension bridge are still standing (as of the mid-2020s) and remnants of the stone towers of the older suspension bridge are still standing below the steel towers.
• Later at same location Teesta Bazaar (Tista Bazar) - Teesta Bazaar (তিস্তা বাজার) and Kalimpong (কালিম্পং), West Bengal, India.
• All past and present bridges at this location.

External Links:

• Facebook - Tista Bazar Bridge, the life line of Sikkim and Kalimpong. A pictorial chronology.. Post detailing the history of bridges at Teesta Bazaar. Suggests the older suspension bridge was possibly built in the 1890s. It was replaced by the Anderson Bridge, a concrete arch bridge, in the 1930s. The Anderson Bridge was destroyed in 1968 and replaced with the Bailey-style suspension bridge.
• Flickr - Over Looking Tista Bridge. Image of a family posing in front of the Bailey-style steel suspension bridge. The bottom half of the older suspension bridge's tower is seen under the steel bridge.
• Flickr - Remains of “new “ Teesta Bridge at Teesta Bazaar. Image of the remains of the Bailey-style suspension bridge. Patrick S. O'Donnell notes the east tower of the old suspension bridge is seen (on the right side of the image) immediately in front of the Bailey suspension bridge tower. The west tower is obscured by trees and vegetation with the main cable saddles of the Bailey suspension bridge barely visible.
• Flickr - Teesta Bridge. Image of the Bailey-style suspension bridge. Remnants of the older suspension bridge's towers are visible under the steel bridge.
• Getty Images - Anderson Bridge. Image of the new Anderson bridge next to the old suspension bridge: "20th November 1933: The new Anderson bridge over the Teesta Valley in Bengal, with the old suspension bridge in the background. The new bridge links the road between India and Tibet. "
• Google Maps. Street view image with the steel tower of the Bailey-style suspension bridge visible in the foreground. In the distance, the other steel tower is seen built on top of the pier of the older Teesta Bazaar suspension bridge.

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