List of road-rail bridges

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, so that trains may operate at the same time as cars (eg the Sydney Harbour Bridge. With Truss bridges, the rail track can be above the roadway (or vice versa)

Alternatively, road and rail share the same track, and road traffic must stop when the trains operate, like a level crossing.

Afghanistan

* between Termez and Jeyretan.

Australia

Current

* Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales
* Bridgewater Bridge, Hobart, Tasmania
* Septimus, Queensland - Head-Menkens Road - Cane tram [ Light Railways - #199 ]
* Grafton - lifting span out of use.

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

Cameroon

* Wouri River bridge, in Douala - almost unservicable because of poor condition [ [http://www.railserve.com/Freight/World/ Freight Railways, Freight Transport & Rail Cargo - RailServe.com ] ] [ [http://www.railserve.com/jump/jump.cgi?ID=15391 Cameroonian Railways ] ]

Canada

Alberta

* High Level Bridge, Edmonton

British Columbia

* Derwent Way Bridge, Delta–New Westminster

Nova Scotia

* Canso Canal Bridge, Port Hastings

Quebec

* Victoria Bridge, Montreal
* Quebec Bridge, Quebec City

Ontario

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

=China=

Anhui

* Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge

Beijing

*Wanghe Bridge

Hong Kong

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

Hubei

*Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge

Jiangsu

*Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge

Liaoning

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

Macau

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

Wuhan

* Yangtze River - four tracks

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.

Estonia

* Papiniidu Bridge, Pärnu

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, eg the two largest bridges over the Ba and Sigatoka Rivers; though many are now rail only as a separate road bridge 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").

Germany

*Fehmarn Sound bridge
*The planned Fehmarn Belt bridge
*Hedemünden Werra valley bridge
*Oberbaumbrücke
*Rügendamm

India

* Godavari Bridge
* Krishna Bridge www.worldrailways.blogspot.com
* Jogighopa combined road rail bridge over Brahmaputra River on North East Frontier Railway [ Janes World Railways 2002 p 194 ]

Japan

* Great Seto Bridge, JR Shikoku
* Kansai International Airport Connecting Bridge, JR West and Nankai Railway
* Murayama Bridge, Nagano Electric Railway

Laos

* Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge

Myanmar

* Mu River

New Zealand

Current

* Alexandra - Manuherikia River, Central Otago Line - single level (rail disused)
* Arahura River - between Greymouth and Hokitika - single level - currently being replaed with a separated road-rail bridge [http://www.historic.org.nz/Register/ListingDetail.asp?RID=5009&sm= Picture & History]
* Okahukura - between Taumarunui and Ohura - two level, road under rail
* Pekatahi - between Edgecumbe and Taneatua - single level (rail disused)
* Taramakau River - between Greymouth and Hokitika - single level

Former

* Rakaia - Separated in 1939
* Seddon - Awatere River - was two level, road under rail (road bridge built alongside, was opened October 2007).
* Waitaki - Separated around the late 1950s

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.
* Hølendalen bruer, near Moss. Motorway and railway, parallel separate bridges.

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 bridge.
* Skanstull Bridge - in Stockholm, combined road and subway/metro rail bridge.
* Lidingöbron - 1 km long parallel road and rail (separate bridges)

United States

Illinois

* McKinley Bridge - rail removed in 1978.

Iowa - Illinois

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

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.

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.

Minnesota

* Oliver Bridge connecting Duluth, MN and Oliver, WI. Rail on upper deck, road on lower deck.

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.)

New York

* 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

Pennsylvania

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

Massachusetts

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

Oregon

* 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.

United Kingdom

* Britannia Bridge Robert Stephenson'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 [http://www.iht.org/motorway/m3ni.htm 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.

* Connel Ferry Bridge, near Oban, Scotland, was formerly shared road-and rail until the railway was closed in the 1960s. Significant for being 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) is expected to re-open around 2009.

Uzbekistan

* Amu Darya Bridge is the first real bridge between Khorezm and Karakalpakstan and 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.

Zimbabwe

* Beitbridge until 1995.

Proposed

* Yemen - Djibouti - Bridge of the Horns

See also

* List of road-rail tunnels
* List of bridge-tunnels‎
* Train ferry

References