List of road–rail bridges
Road-rail bridges are bridges shared by road and rail lines. Road and rail may be segregated so that trains may operate at the same time as cars (e.g., the Sydney Harbour Bridge). The rail track can be above the roadway or vice versa with truss bridges. Road and rail may share the same carriageway so that road traffic must stop when the trains operate (like a level crossing), or operate together like a tram in a street (street running).
Road-rail bridges are sometimes called combined bridges.[1]
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Afghanistan
- Afghanistan-Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge between Termez and Jeyretan.
Argentina
- Transandine Railway rail tunnel converted to road use for time being, albeit single lane.
Australia
Current
- Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales now with parallel tunnel.
- Narrows Bridge, Perth, Western Australia
- Mount Henry Bridge, Perth, Western Australia
- Bridgewater Bridge, Hobart, Tasmania[1][2]
- Burdekin Bridge, Queensland
- Bylong Tunnel used for single lane road, until railway completed [clarification needed]
- Dickabram Bridge, Queensland
- Grafton Bridge, New South Wales - lifting span out of use. Also carries large water main instead of second railway track.
- Septimus, Queensland - Head-Menkens Road - Cane tram[3]
- Pyrmont Bridge, Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales. (no longer open to vehicles normally)
- Swan River bridge at Fremantle proposed to be rebuilt as Combined Bridge after flood damage. 1926.[4]
- Bloomfield Coal Loop over New England Highway near Thornton[5]
Former
- Menindee, New South Wales - separated in the 1970s.
- Penrith, New South Wales - separated in 1907.
- Tocumwal, New South Wales - separated in the 1980s.
- Murray Bridge, South Australia[6]
- Paringa–Renmark, South Australia (1927)[7]
- Echuca, Victoria–Moama, New South Wales
Bahrain-Qatar
- Qatar–Bahrain Friendship Bridge for road and rail will be 45 km (28 mi) long, connecting Bahrain and Qatar.
Bangladesh
Benin
Brazil
Burma
Cameroon
- Wouri River bridge, in Douala - almost unservicable because of poor condition[8][9]
- Bonabéri - Douala over Wouri River esturary
Canada
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Alexandra Bridge, Ottawa until the tracks were removed
- Prince Edward Viaduct, Toronto since 1966 when the subway was commissioned on the lower deck
- Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, Niagara Falls, Ontario, carries passenger rail on the upper level, commuter autos on the lower level between Ontario and New York
- Québec
- Saskatchewan
- St. Louis Bridge - 1915 rail only; 1928 road-rail; 1983; road only.
- Canadian Northern Railway Bridge (Prince Albert) - 1909 - 1960 road-rail; 1960 rail only;
- also a swing bridge 1909-1939
- Crooked Bridge - 1930
- CPR Bridge (Saskatoon) rail 1908; rail and pedestrian 1909
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Kongolo Bridge
- Brazzaville–Kinshasa Bridge - proposed
- Matadi Bridge - railway yet to be used. Built 1983. [10] Angola would like to use this bridge to reach their exclave of Cabinda.
Czech Republic
- Bechyně. In 1928 a bridge was constructed to carry the railway line and road from Tábor into Bechyně. Previously the line had stopped on the other side of a deep gorge from the town and access was by way of a steep road and narrow bridge. The rail line runs in the roadway for 100 m and traffic stopped by lights as for a grade crossing.[11]
China
- 4 rail tracks and 6 road lanes over the Yangtze River[12]
- Sino-Korea Friendship Bridge - connected to Sinŭiju, North Korea
- Shanghai
- Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge (space reserved for metro)
Denmark
- Great Belt Fixed Link, the Western Bridge.
- Little Belt Bridge
- Oresund Bridge
- Masnedsund Bridge
- Storstrøm Bridge
- King Frederik IX Bridge
- King Christian X Bridge in Sønderborg, railway closed.
- Oddesund Bridge
- Hadsund Bridge, railway closed, bridge replaced.
Egypt
- Proposed road-rail tunnel under Suez Canal[13]
- Suez Canal road rail bridge at El Hammad[14]
Estonia
France
- Cize-Bolozon viaduct on the Ligne du Haut-Bugey built 1882, destroyed by the maquis in 1945, rebuilt 1950
- Pont Morand, Lyon
Fiji
- On Viti Levu the CSR Company was obliged to provide road-rail bridges when it built bridges for the Cane Trains to their sugar mills, e.g. the two largest bridges over the Ba and Sigatoka Rivers. Many are now rail-only as separate road bridges has been built.
- The Ba Bridge (550 ft; 170 m) has 19 spans, 17 standard spans (30 ft; 9 m) and a short span at each end, and has been rail-only for many years. The Sigatoka Bridge (810 ft; 245 m) has 27 spans. Both bridges are prone to hurricane damage due to extra flow of water; the Ba Bridge often disappears under water but is not always damaged (see Cane Trains).
- Sigatoka Bridge was washed away by storms, January 2009.[15]
Finland
- Ounaskoski bridge
- Bridge in Keminmaa
Ghana
- Unknown location with U-Tube movie [16]
Germany
- Fehmarn Sound bridge
- The planned Fehmarn Belt bridge Germany/Denmark
- Lindaunis Bridge
- Moselbrücke Bullay - double deck road and rail bridge[17]
- Oberbaumbrücke
- Rügendamm
- Elbbrücke Lauenburg
- Manheim[18]
Hong Kong
Current
- Lantau Link
- Hoi Wong Road across Tuen Mun River estuary[19][20]
- Kwun Tong Road over Tsui Ping Nullah
- Castle Peak Road-Hung Shui Kiu over Hung Shui Kiu River
Former
- Bowrington Bridge, part of Hennessy Road across Bowrington Canal
India
- Godavari Bridge, Andhra Pradesh
- Naranarayana Bridge, Assam
- Saraighat Bridge, Assam
- Koilwar Bridge, Bihar
- Rajendra Setu, Bihar
- Farakka Barrage, West Bengal
- Vivekananda Setu, West Bengal
Iraq
- River Tigris in Baghdad - 1950[21]
Japan
Current
- Great Seto Bridge, JR Shikoku
- Kansai International Airport Connecting Bridge (Sky Gate Bridge R), JR West and Nankai Railway
- Murayama Bridge, Nagano Electric Railway
- Rainbow Bridge, Yurikamome
Former
- Inuyama Bridge - separated in 2000.
North Korea
Serbia
South Korea
Laos
Macau
- Ponte de Sai Van (space reserved for a rail-link in future)
Netherlands
New Zealand
Current
- Alexandra - Manuherikia River, Central Otago Line - single level, shared deck (rail closed)
- Okahukura - between Taumarunui and Ohura - two level, road under rail
- Pekatahi - between Edgecumbe and Taneatua - single level, shared deck (rail disused)
- Taramakau River - Ross Branch - single level, shared deck
- Hindon, New Zealand - Taieri Gorge Railway - single level - converted from rail only
- Sutton, near Middlemarch, New Zealand - Taieri Gorge Railway - single level
- Napier - Palmerston North - Gisborne Line - single level, separate decks (road closed)
- Inangahua - Stillwater - Westport Line - single level, separate decks
- Arahura, near Hokitika - Ross Branch - single level, separate decks (replaced single level, shared deck bridge)
- Seddon - Main North Line over Awatere River - two level, road under rail (road closed in November 2007); see picture above of TranzCoastal crossing the bridge in April 2007
Former
- Arahura River - between Greymouth and Hokitika - single level - replaced in 2009[24]
- Rakaia - separated in 1939
- Waitaki - Separated around the late 1950s
Nigeria
- River Benue road rail bridge at Makurdi [25]
Norway
- Rødberg Bridge carried the now closed Numedal Line to its terminus in Rødberg and the highway continuing to Geilo over Upsetelva in the center of Rødberg. The rails are still in place, covered by tarmac. There has been no rail traffic on Numedalsbanen since 1988. The railway is in the road, so car traffic had to stop when trains were passing.
- Bruhaug Bridge, also on Numedal Line carried both the railway and local car traffic over the river Numedalslågen. The road surface is wood.
- Hølendalen Bridge, near Moss. Motorway and railway, parallel separate bridges.
- Nygård Bridge in Bergen carries both the Bergen Light Rail and a street. A parallel bridge carries European Route E39.
Portugal
Qatar
- See above (under Bahrain)
Russia
- Khabarovsk Bridge over the Amur River.
Sri Lanka
- Manampitiya Bridge over the Mahaweli River - This narrow bridge is used only for rail since 2006.[26][27]
- Valaichchenai Bridge (Oddamavadi Bridge) across Valaichchenai lagoon in Eastern Province. - Railway-only since April 2010[26][28]
Sweden
- Oresund Bridge - 8 km long two-level bridge. Road (four lane) on top, rail (two tracks) below.
- In the sparsely populated part of Sweden there are some narrow same-track combined road-rail bridges:
- in Oxberg
- in Sveg (
) - north of Moskosel (
). - in Kristianstad (industry railway, road in the same track)
- in Norrköping (industry railway, road next to the rail)
- Traneberg Bridge - in Stockholm, combined road and subway/metro rail bridge.
- Skanstull Bridge - in Stockholm, combined road and subway/metro rail bridge.
- Lidingöbron - 1 km long parallel road and rail (separate bridges). The road bridge was built 1971; before that the old bridge had road and double track railway in the same carriageway.
Thailand
- Rama VI Bridge (separated in 2003)
Uganda
United Kingdom
Current
- Britannia Bridge Robert Stephenson's famous bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales. Rebuilt as a road and rail bridge after the fire in 1970.
- High Level Bridge Newcastle upon Tyne.
- King George V Bridge, Keadby, North Lincolnshire. Carries the A18 and the Doncaster–Scunthorpe railway across the River Trent. Opened in 1916, Althorpe railway station is on the western bank of the Trent, very close to the bridge, which has not lifted for some years.
- Belfast cross-harbour bridge, opened 1994-1995. See The Motorway Archive
- Kingsferry road and rail bridge, Isle of Sheppey. Built in 1960, until 2006 this was the only road crossing to the island. The bridge opens 20 times each day.
- Britannia Bridge, Porthmadog, Wales, on the Welsh Highland Railway, Shared by this narrow gauge line and the main road through the town.
- Runcorn Railway Bridge - rail shared with pedestrians
Former
- Connel Bridge, near Oban, Scotland, was shared until the railway closed in the 1960s. A cantilever bridge.
- Ashton Swing Bridge, Bristol road rail swing bridge. See Bristol Railway Archive
- Queen Alexandra Bridge, still in road (A1231) use across the River Wear between Deptford and Southwick in Sunderland, mineral railway abandoned in 1921 after 12 years' use.
United States
- I Street Bridge carries two tracks of Amtrak/Union Pacific Railroad and two lanes of State Route 16 between Sacramento and West Sacramento.
- San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge carried two tracks of Key System between San Francisco and Oakland from 1936 until 1963.
- Acosta Bridge - Carries two monorail tracks for the JTA Skyway and six lanes of State Road 13 in Jacksonville.
- McKinley Bridge - rail removed in 1978.
- Fort Madison Toll Bridge - rail on lower deck, road on upper deck--
- Government Bridge - rail on upper deck, road on lower deck, swing-span bridge
- Almonaster Avenue Bridge - Bascule drawbridge in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Florida Avenue Bridge - Vertical lift drawbridge in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Huey P. Long Bridge - Truss bridge in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
- Huey P. Long Bridge - Truss bridge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- St. Claude Avenue Bridge - former road and rail bridge, nowadays it serves automotive and pedestrian traffic. New Orleans
- Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Bridge - Truss bridge between Louisville, Kentucky and New Albany, Indiana over the Ohio River. Road portion closed in 1979 when roadway collapsed under an overweight truck.
- Oliver Bridge connecting Duluth, Minnesota and Oliver, Wisconsin. Rail on upper deck, road on lower deck.
- Second Hannibal Bridge in Kansas City, Missouri across the Missouri River. Opened in 1917, had a road deck until 1956, when another bridge was built, but the rail deck is presently in use. Evidence of the road deck is still plainly visible.
- ASB Bridge in Kansas City, Missouri, across the Missouri River. Opened in 1911, it carried vehicular traffic until 1987, when new span was built. Bridge is unique that lower part is a vertical lift drawbridge, while without interrupting traffic on the upper deck.
- Eads Bridge in St. Louis, Missouri across the Mississippi River. Opened in 1874. It carries the road traffic on the upper deck and the St. Louis MetroLink on the lower deck.
- Clay Wade Bailey Bridge/C&O Railroad Bridge - Cincinnati, Ohio to Newport, Kentucky over the Ohio River. (Technically, these are two separate bridges, but they are spaced very closely adjacent to each other and built on common piers.)
- Broadway Bridge - Road and elevated subway (the 1 line) bridge in New York City
- Manhattan Bridge - Road and elevated subway (B, D, N, Q lines) bridge in New York City
- Williamsburg Bridge - Road and elevated subway (J, M, Z lines) bridge in New York City
- Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, Niagara Falls, New York, carries passenger rail on the upper level, commuter autos on the lower level between Ontario and New York
- Benjamin Franklin Bridge - Suspension bridge carrying I-676 and PATCO Speedline trains between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey.
- Longfellow Bridge - Four lane road with two subway tracks running down the centre of the bridge connecting Boston and Cambridge over the Charles River.
- Steel Bridge - A through truss, double lift bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon Carrying pedestrian, rail, automobile, bus, MAX Light Rail and vintage streetcar making it one of the most multi-modal bridges in the world.
Uzbekistan
- Amu Darya Bridge is the first bridge between Khorezm and Karakalpakstan, opened March 2004. It only has one track with the rails embedded into tarmac, used for trains and cars, one direction at a time, and is 681 m long. It now doubles the pontoon bridge that was the only link between Khorezm and the rest of Uzbekistan.
- See above for the cross-border bridge to Afghanistan
Venezuela
Zambia
Zimbabwe
- Beitbridge until 1995.
- Victoria Falls Bridge
Temporary
During wartime and other emergencies, rail tracks on bridges are sometimes paved to allow road traffic to proceed. Examples include the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen bridge.
After a landslide on the Stromeferry road in 2012, a 150m section of the parallel railway was paved with rubber tiles to allow road traffic to avoid a 250 km detour.[30]
Proposed
- Bangladesh - Padma bridge[31][32]
- Germany/Denmark - Fehmarn Belt bridge
- Italy - Messina Bridge
- Republic of the Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Brazzaville-Kinshasa Bridge[33]
- Yemen - Djibouti - Bridge of the Horns
- Botswana - Zambia - Kazungula bridge - 2010
- Sunda Strait - Indonesia [34]
- Venezuela - Nigale Bridge ( Maracaibo Lake )[citation needed]
Under Construction
See also
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