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Marcus Marcusson - 21 Aug 2008 14:09 GMT

Are combined railway- and other kinds of bridges common in other
countries?

In Sweden the remaining ones are countible on the fingers - though later
additioned bicycle lanes are present now and when the former industrial
ditricts rebuilds to housing areas.

http://mac.abc.se/~pictor/RAIL/cykelbro.html

/M

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beamendsltd - 21 Aug 2008 14:26 GMT

> Are combined railway- and other kinds of bridges common in other
> countries?
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> /M

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road-rail_bridge

has one or two!

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Andrew Robert Breen - 21 Aug 2008 15:58 GMT

>> Are combined railway- and other kinds of bridges common in other
>> countries?
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>has one or two!

Are you talking parallel road and rail (or rail set into road) or
double-deck bridges. There are certainly a couple of major examples of the
latter in the UK (the High Level Bridge in Newcastle and the Britannia
Bridge across Afon Menei in Wales spring to mind straight away.

Actually, Sweden has one of the biggest examples of such a bridge (IIRC) -
isn't the Oresund crossing partially a road/rail bridge?

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Christopher A. Lee - 21 Aug 2008 16:18 GMT

>>> Are combined railway- and other kinds of bridges common in other
>>> countries?
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>Actually, Sweden has one of the biggest examples of such a bridge (IIRC) -
>isn't the Oresund crossing partially a road/rail bridge?

When the San Francisco Oakland Bay Brigde was opened, regular road
traffic used the upper deck. The lower deck was split between bus and
train. The last train ran in 1958.

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MartinS - 24 Aug 2008 22:32 GMT

>> Are combined railway- and other kinds of bridges common in other
>> countries?
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> has one or two!

The Whirlpool Bridge linking Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada to Niagara
Falls, New York, USA is an international 2-level road/rail bridge.

It is not on the above list for some reason, but is described at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_Rapids_Bridge

The upper (single track rail) level is in need of repairs; the daily
Maple Leaf passenger train (Amtrak #63 and #64) between Toronto Union
and New York Penn Stations is the only train that uses the bridge.

The adjacent Michigan Central Bridge built as part of a direct link from
Western New York to Michigan via Canada is now disused; it has a wall
with barbed wire in the middle to prevent anyone from walking across.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Central_Railway_Bridge

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Christopher A. Lee - 21 Aug 2008 15:42 GMT

>Are combined railway- and other kinds of bridges common in other
>countries?
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>http://mac.abc.se/~pictor/RAIL/cykelbro.html

The Connel Ferry Bridge in Scotland comes to mind.

And of course the most famous was the Bay Bridge between San Francisco
and Oakland.

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Fred X - 21 Aug 2008 19:13 GMT

> Are combined railway- and other kinds of bridges common in other
> countries?
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> /M

You are probably better off posting this on the uk.railway newsgroup for
a comprehensive answer, but there is a picture in the Sept 2008 issue
of Rail Express of the combined road/rail swing bridge that leads to
Preston Docks. You can see it on Google Maps.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=preston&ie=UTF8&ll=53.759488,
-2.744715&spn=0.001659,0.005488&t=k&z=18

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Philip Shaw - 27 Aug 2008 03:16 GMT

> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:09:50 +0100, Marcus Marcusson
> <marcuspictorNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=preston&ie=UTF8&ll=53.759488,
-2.744715&spn=0.001659,0.005488&t=k&z=18

See also aus.rail, there is a similar discussion there (withthe same OP),
but for some reason he didn't cross-post, he posted the messages seperately,
so the discussions are seperate.

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