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]
Afghanistan
Argentina
Australia
Current
- Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales now with parallel tunnel.
- Bridgewater Bridge, Hobart, Tasmania [2][3]
- Burdekin Bridge, Queensland
- Bylong Tunnel used for single lane road, until railway completed
- Dickabram Bridge, Queensland
- Grafton Bridge, New South Wales - lifting span out of use. Also carries water main onstead of second railway track.
- Septimus, Queensland - Head-Menkens Road - Cane tram [4]
- 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. "FREMANTLE BRIDGE.". Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900-1954) (Launceston, Tas.: National Library of Australia): p. 4 Edition: DAILY. 9 September 1926. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51361959. Retrieved 1 July 2011. </ref>
- Bloomfield Coal Loop over New England Highway at Thornton [5]
Former
Bahrain-Qatar
Bangladesh
Benin
Burma
Cameroon
[7] [8]
Canada
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Québec
- Saskatchewan
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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.[9]
China
- Anhui
- Beijing
- Fujian
- Hubei
- Jiangsu
- Liaoning
- Shanghai
Hong Kong SAR
Macau SAR
Denmark
Egypt
Estonia
France
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.[12]
Finland
Germany
India
Iraq
Japan
Current
Former
North Korea
- See above
South Korea
Laos
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
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.
Qatar
- See above (under Bahrain)
Russia
Sri Lanka
- Manampitiya Bridge over the Mahaweli River - This narrow bridge is used only for rail since 2006.[14][15]
- Valaichchenai Bridge (Oddamavadi Bridge) across Valaichchenai lagoon in Eastern Province. - Railway-only since April 2010[16][17]
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:
- 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
- See above
United Kingdom
- 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.
- Connel Bridge, near Oban, Scotland, was shared until the railway closed in the 1960s. A cantilever bridge.
- Britannia Bridge, Porthmadog, Wales, on the Welsh Highland Railway, formerly shared by this narrow gauge line and the main road through the town. The restored line and shared bridge are expected to re-open around 2009.
United States
- California
- Florida
- Illinois
- Iowa - Illinois
- Louisiana
- Kentucky
- Minnesota
- Oliver Bridge connecting Duluth, Minnesota and Oliver, Wisconsin. Rail on upper deck, road on lower deck.
- Missouri
- Ohio
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Massachusetts
- Oregon
- 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
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Proposed
See also
References