List of bridges over the Nile

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The list of Nile bridges includes bridges and comparable crossings (weirs, dams) over the Nile . The list begins on the Mediterranean in the north and continues upriver south.

The list is not complete. The names of the bridges are often taken from Google Maps; if the names of the bridges themselves were not recognizable, they were named after the closest location.

Bridges between the Mediterranean and Cairo

Bridges over the Rosetta Arm

  • Bridge of the International Coastal Road above Rosetta / Rashid , a four-lane road bridge as part of the International Coastal Road built between 1993 and 2004 ( 31 ° 22 ′ 33 ″  N , 30 ° 25 ′ 54.7 ″  E )
  • Edfina weir and bridge of the North Delta Electricity Distribution Co. near Ibyanah. Built 1948–1951 by the French Société de Construction des Batignolles with the aim of reducing the runoff of fresh water in the summer months and thereby preventing salt water from seeping into irrigated fields. The weir has 46 gates, each 8 m wide. Two gates each stand between 2.5 m thick pillars. On the left bank there is a lock with a chamber measuring 80 m × 12 m. ( 31 ° 18 ′ 20.6 ″  N , 30 ° 31 ′ 7.4 ″  E )
  • Edfina - Mutubas railway and road bridge, a railway bridge with four trusses and one vehicle lane on each side. ( 31 ° 17 ′ 14.9 ″  N , 30 ° 31 ′ 11.1 ″  E )
  • Fuwa Bridge, a four-lane road bridge near Fuwa that was completed in 2011. ( 31 ° 11 ′ 32.5 ″  N , 30 ° 32 ′ 47.1 ″  E )
Desouk railway bridge

Bridges over the Damietta arm

Railway bridge in Al-Mansourah

Bridges in Cairo

Historic Imbaba Bridge
October 6th Bridge
Kasr El Nile Bridge
  • Northern Ring Road Bridge, an eight-lane motorway bridge
  • Al-Faraq Bridge as part of an eight-lane city motorway
  • Imbaba railway bridge with seven trusses, to which a lane was built on the outside. A swing bridge, construction of which began in 1913, was held up by the First World War and was completed in 1925. The bridge replaced an older bridge, completed in 1890, with six steel girders and also a rotating element.
  • Bridge of May 15, a nine to ten lane road bridge (prestressed concrete box girder bridge) May 15 commemorates the beginning of the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 .
  • October 6th Bridge , a ten-lane road bridge completed in 1996. October 6th commemorates the beginning of the Yom Kippur War 1973, as well as October 6th 1981, on which Anwar al-Sadat was murdered.
  • Kasr El Nil Bridge, a four-lane steel bridge built by Dorman Long in 1931–1933 . It replaced the Kobri-el-Gezira Bridge , which was built by the French company Fives-Lille from 1869 to 1871 under the Minister Linant de Bellefonds .
  • Al-Gamaa Bridge (also: University Bridge), a six-lane road bridge
  • Giza Bridge, an eight-lane road bridge
  • Southern Ring Road Bridge, an eight-lane motorway bridge

Bridges between Cairo and the Aswan Dam

Asyut weir
Bridge at Luxor
The Al-Khattarah Bridge south of Kom Ombo

Bridges between the Aswan Dam or Lake Nasser and Khartoum

Bridges over the White Nile

Old Omdurman Bridge
Juba bridge

Bridges over the Blue Nile

Bridges in Khartoum

Bridges south of Khartoum

Roseires Dam
Portuguese bridge

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ International Coastal Road on the ACE Consulting Engineers website
  2. ↑ Mamdouh Shahin: Hydrology of the Nile Basin . Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam 1985, ISBN 0-444-42433-4 , p. 449.
  3. ↑ The Dessouk Bridge across the Nile . In: Bridges: a few Examples of the Work of a Pioneer Firm in the Manufacture of Steel and Steel Work . Dorman Long and Company Limited. London 1930, pp. 12-28
  4. ↑ Mamdouh Shahin: Hydrology of the Nile Basin . Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam 1985, ISBN 0-444-42433-4 , p. 449.
  5. ↑ Old Imbaba Bridge in Cairo Article in Cairobserver.com
  6. ^ Large Barrages Rehabilitation Program on EMWIS.org
  7. ↑ Schleuse Zifta ( Memento of the original of February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on dsd-noell.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dsd-noell.com
  8. ↑ Old Imbaba Bridge in Cairo Article in Cairobserver.com
  9. ↑ 15th of May Bridge on ACE-Consultants.com
  10. ↑ The bridge was one of the first bridges to be repaired / built by Bridges to Prosperity
  11. ↑ Also built by Bridges to Prosperity