List of road-rail bridges

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Road-rail bridges are bridges shared by road and rail lines, as an economy measure compared to providing separate bridges. Road and rail may be provided with separate tracks, in which case trains may operate at the same time as cars. Alternatively, road and rail may share the same track, in which case road traffic must stop when the trains operate, like a level crossing.

Contents 1 Australia 1.1 Current 1.2 Former 2 Canada 2.1 British Columbia 2.2 Quebec 2.3 Ontario 3 China, People's Republic of 3.1 Beijing 3.2 Hong Kong 3.3 Hubei 3.4 Jiangsu 3.5 Liaoning 3.6 Macau 4 Denmark 5 Laos 6 New Zealand 6.1 Current 6.2 Former 7 Norway 8 Sweden 9 United States 9.1 Alaska 9.2 Iowa - Illinois 9.3 Louisiana 9.4 Kentucky 9.5 Ohio 9.6 New York 9.7 Pennsylvania 9.8 Massachusetts 10 United Kingdom 11 See also

[edit] Australia

[edit] Current

• Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales
• Bridgewater Bridge, Hobart, Tasmania

[edit] 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
• Paringa–Renmark, South Australia
• Echuca, Victoria–Moama, New South Wales

[edit] Canada

[edit] British Columbia

• Derwent Way Bridge, Delta–New Westminster

[edit] Quebec

• Victoria Bridge (Montreal)
• Quebec Bridge, Quebec City

[edit] Ontario

• Prince Edward Viaduct, Toronto since 1966 when the subway was commissioned on the lower deck

[edit] China, People's Republic of

[edit] Beijing

• Wanghe Bridge

[edit] Hong Kong

• Lantau Link
  • Tsing Ma Bridge
  • Ma Wan Viaduct
  • Kap Shui Mun Bridge

[edit] Hubei

• Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge

[edit] Jiangsu

• Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge

[edit] Liaoning

• Sino-Korea Friendship Bridge - connected to Sinŭiju, North Korea

[edit] Macau

• Ponte de Sai Van (space reserved for a rail-link in future)

[edit] Denmark

• Great Belt Fixed Link, the Western Bridge of it.
• 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.

[edit] Laos

• Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge

[edit] New Zealand

[edit] Current

• Alexandra - Manuherikia River, Central Otago Line - single level (rail disused)
• Arahura River - between Greymouth and Hokitika - single level - road bridge to be built alongside
• Okahukura - between Taumarunui and Ohura - two level, road under rail
• Pekatahi - between Edgecumbe and Taneatua - single level (rail disused)
• Seddon - Awatere River - two level, road under rail - road bridge being built alongside, completion 2007
• Taramakau River - between Greymouth and Hokitika - single level

[edit] Former

• Rakaia - Separated in 1939
• Waitaki - Separated around the late 1950s

[edit] Norway

• Rødberg bridge carried the now closed Numedalsbanen to its terminus in Rødberg and the highway continuing to Geilo over Upsetelva in the center of Rødberg. The rails are still in place, but 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 Numedalsbanen carried both the railway and local car traffic over the river Numedalslågen. The road surface is wood.

[edit] 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, e.g. in Oxberg, Sveg and Rossön.
• Traneberg Bridge - in Stockholm, combined road and subway/metro rail brigde.

[edit] United States

[edit] Alaska

• Seward - road and rail tunnel.

[edit] Iowa - Illinois

• Fort Madison Toll Bridge - rail on lower deck, road on upper deck

[edit] Louisiana

• Almonaster 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.

[edit] Kentucky

• 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.

[edit] Ohio

• 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.)

[edit] New York

• Manhattan Bridge - Road and elevated subway bridge in New York City

[edit] Pennsylvania

• Benjamin Franklin Bridge - Suspension bridge connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey.

[edit] Massachusetts

• Longfellow Bridge - Four lane road with two subway tracks running down the centre of the the bridge connecting Boston and Cambridge over the Charles River.

[edit] United Kingdom

• Britannia Bridge Telford's famous bridge across the Menai 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

• Isle of Sheppey Kingsferry road and rail bridge. Built in 1960, until 2006 this was the only road crossing to the island. The bridge opens 20 times each day.

[edit] See also

• list of road-rail tunnels
• train ferry