An-Nil-al-Azraq Bridge
The an-Nil-al-azraq bridge ( Arabic كوبرى النيل الأزرق; English Blue Nile road & Railway Bridge ; also Blue Nile Bridge ) is a steel - truss - arched bridge for rail and car traffic in Sudan and the oldest bridge in the Al-Chartum conurbation .
It was built from 1907 to 1909 by the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Co. to connect the agricultural areas of the Jazirah Plain with the deep-sea port of Bur Sudan on the Red Sea.
The bridge connects Khartoum over the Blue Nile with al-Chartum Bahri and is in the immediate vicinity of the University of Khartoum . It is a total of 518 m long, had a rail track and two 6.5 m wide lanes for car traffic, but is only used for car traffic. It consists of seven truss girders with spans of 66.6 m each and a bascule bridge at the northern end of 34 m span.
To relieve them, the new Al-Mak-Nimir Bridge was inaugurated in October 2007 about one kilometer to the west in the center of Khartoum . A third bridge from Khartoum over the Blue Nile to Bahri is the Tuti Bridge , which was completed in 2009 and crosses Tuti Island in two sections .
Web links
- Franz Baltzer : The colonial railways with a special focus on Africa . Göschen'sche Verlagshandlung, Berlin-Leipzig 1916; Reprint-Verlag-Leipzig, ISBN 978-3-8262-0233-9 , p. 110 ( at Google Books )
- Bridges & Roads In Khartoum. ( Memento of May 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Sudan Online, February 21, 2007
- Blue Nile Road & Railway Bridge. structurae.net
Coordinates: 15 ° 36 ′ 57.2 " N , 32 ° 32 ′ 38" E