Great Ayub Arch

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The Ayub Arch is the adjacent railway bridge arch, approximately 100 feet apart to the Lansdowse Bridge of Rohri, Sindh, Pakistan. Ayub Arch became the world's third longest railway arch span and the first bridge in the world to have "the Railway desk slung on coiled wire rope suspenders" when completed in 1962. It was built as a replacement for the railway traffic to be shifted from Lansdowne Bridge connecting the historical cities of Rohri and Sukkur since 1889.

Dr. D.D. Steinman of New York, proponent of 'vocational aesthetics' designed this graceful bridge which cost about 20 million rupees. The foundation stone was laid on December 9, 1960; completely made of Steel and about a hundred feet apart, the two bridges seem like one from a distance after its completion in 1962. A tribute to Pakistani, American and British engineers, it was opened by President Muhammad Ayub Khan on May 6, 1962.