Atbara Railway Bridge

The Atbara Railway Bridge is a steel - girder bridge for rail traffic over the Atbara River in Sudan .

The bridge is located south of the city of Atbara . It was built from 1910 to 1911 by Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Co. on behalf of the British Colonial Administration of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan .

It has a total length of 336 meters and consists of seven 48-meter-long lattice girders , the ends of which rest on a pair of round pillars.

history

It was preceded by a makeshift bridge made of wood, which was built in 1898 after the defeat of the Mahdists in order to be able to extend the railway line to Khartoum . However, the wooden bridge was destroyed by a flood in 1899, so that a more stable construction was necessary.

Individual evidence

↑ Ahmad Alawad Sikainga: CITY OF STEEL AND FIRE. A Social History of Atbara, Sudan's Railway Town, 1906-1984 . Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, USA 2002, ISBN 0-325-07107-1 , pp. 26 .

Web links

Atbara Railway Bridge. In: Structurae

17.677491666667 33.975875Coordinates: 17 ° 40 ′ 39 " N , 33 ° 58 ′ 33.2" E

[1] Ahmad Alawad Sikainga: CITY OF STEEL AND FIRE. A Social History of Atbara, Sudan's Railway Town, 1906-1984 . Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, USA 2002, ISBN 0-325-07107-1 , pp. 26 .