Old Omdurman Bridge

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Right bank of Khartoum, behind the Omdurman bridge and the confluence with the Blue Nile

The Omdurman Bridge (also redemption bridge , or Old White Nile bridge ) is a steel - truss bridge to traffic in Sudan and the oldest bridge of the conurbation al-Chartum .

It connects Khartoum with Omdurman over the White Nile . The embankment road on the Blue Nile in Khartoum (Sharia al-Nil) is extended to the west and leads over the bridge to the parliament building on the other side. The bridge was designed by the London engineering firm Sir Douglas & Francis Fox and from 1924 to 1926 by Dorman Long and Co. Ltd. built. The construction supervisor for the engineering office was Georges Camille Imbault, who had previously worked for the office on the Victoria Falls Bridge . It is 613 meters long and is supported by seven pairs of round pillars. It originally consisted of seven 74.20 m long trusses and a 92.50 m long swing bridge and was intended for light trains. Later the tracks were converted into lanes for road traffic and a further lane was added on each side of the bridge. From 2004 to 2006 the bridge was repaired by a South African construction company.

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  • Bridge, 2013

  • Bridge from the north, 2013

literature

  • Wolfram Haumer, Gregor Gebert, Frank Ehrlicher, Khalid El-Dawi: The repair of the Old White Nile Bridge in Khartoum / Sudan. In Stahlbau , Volume 79, December 2010, pp. 883–891 ( abstract ; full text via Wiley Online Library, with limited access)

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcel Prade: Les grands ponts du monde . Deuxième partie, Hors d'Europe. Brissaud à Poitiers. ISBN 2-902170-68-8 , p. 27

Coordinates: 15 ° 36 ′ 49.6 ″  N , 32 ° 29 ′ 28.1 ″  E