List of bridges over the Nile
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 , a 613 m long truss bridge over the river and an island built by Dorman Long between November 1925 and February 1927 . The side arm is crossed with four 61 m long lattice girders, the main arm also with four such girders as well as a 59 m long rotatable girder and a shorter, 54 m long girder on the bank. A vehicle lane is attached to the outside of the carrier. The bridge replaced an older bridge, opened in 1895, which was no longer able to cope with the increased traffic. ( 31 ° 7 ′ 50.2 ″ N , 30 ° 38 ′ 13 ″ E )
- Desouk Road Bridge, a four-lane road bridge that was completed in 2010. ( 31 ° 6 ′ 59.1 ″ N , 30 ° 39 ′ 1.8 ″ E )
- Railway bridge in Kafr El-Zayat , a total of around 500 m long, two-lane railway bridge consisting of 7 steel trusses with pedestrian walkways on both sides. The bridge is the successor to the bridge built by Robert Stephenson on the Alexandria - Cairo line , the first section of which to Kafr El-Zayat was built from 1852 to 1854 and was the first railroad in Africa. ( 30 ° 49 ′ 9.5 ″ N , 30 ° 48 ′ 41.6 ″ E )
- Road bridge at Kafr El-Zayat in the course of the Tanta -Alexandria-Strasse ( 30 ° 48 ′ 56.4 ″ N , 30 ° 48 ′ 34.6 ″ E )
- Motorway bridge (six lanes) at Kafr El-Zayat ( 30 ° 48 ′ 50.5 ″ N , 30 ° 48 ′ 28.3 ″ E )
- Road bridge at Al Birijat ( 30 ° 30 '30.5 " N , 30 ° 49' 59.4" O )
- Muhammad Ali Barrages , weir and bridge at Manshiyyat Al Qanatir, which replaced the old Delta Barrages. The weir, built between 1937 and 1938, has 46 gates, each 8 m wide, between 2.5 m thick pillars. On the left bank there is a lock with a chamber measuring 80 × 12 m. ( 30 ° 11 ′ 20.3 ″ N , 31 ° 6 ′ 34.3 ″ E )
- Delta Barrages below the separation of the Nile into the Rosetta and Damietta arms, a weir planned under Muhammad Ali Pascha by Eugène Mougel (Mougel Bey) and completed after his death in 1862, which had to be rehabilitated several times, in particular from 1885 to 1890, and finally through in 1938 the weir built 850 m downstream was replaced. It is 450 m long and has 61 gates each 4.8 m wide, now open, and a former lock on the left bank. ( 30 ° 11 ′ 3.3 ″ N , 31 ° 6 ′ 59.3 ″ E )
Bridges over the Damietta arm
- Road bridge in Damietta. ( 31 ° 25 ′ 30.2 ″ N , 31 ° 48 ′ 13.8 ″ E )
- Old Bridge in Damietta, a swing bridge built between 1927–1929 using parts of the old Imbaba Bridge in Cairo. ( 31 ° 25 ′ 11.1 ″ N , 31 ° 48 ′ 33.1 ″ E )
- Damietta dam and lock with Damietta Bridge (also Faraskour Dam ), an earth dam built between 1985 and 1989 to fill the Al Salam Canal, which begins 2.3 km upstream and which is led through a culvert under the Suez Canal to To supply water to the North Sinai Development Project . The dam has a 150 x 17 m lock on the left bank. ( 31 ° 24 ′ 33.9 ″ N , 31 ° 47 ′ 10 ″ E )
- International Coastal Road bridge about 7 km southwest of Damietta. Four-lane road bridge in the course of the International Coastal Road, which opened in 2002 ( 31 ° 23 ′ 30.9 ″ N , 31 ° 44 ′ 54.8 ″ E )
- Faraskour-bridge, a four-lane road bridge at Faraskour ( 31 ° 19 '25.8 " N , 31 ° 42' 22.5" O )
- Sherbin bridge, a two-lane road bridge in Sherbin ( 31 ° 19 '25.8 " N , 31 ° 42' 22.5" O )
- New Sherbin Bridge, a four-lane road bridge west of the town ( 31 ° 11 ′ 23.4 ″ N , 31 ° 30 ′ 39.5 ″ E )
- Al-Baddalah Bridge, a four-lane bridge completed in 2014 ( 31 ° 11 ′ 23.4 ″ N , 31 ° 30 ′ 39.5 ″ E )
- Al-Mansura railway bridge, double-track bridge with four trusses ( 31 ° 3 ′ 1.7 ″ N , 31 ° 23 ′ 17.9 ″ E )
- Ṭalchā Bridge in al-Mansura ( 31 ° 3 ′ 1.7 ″ N , 31 ° 23 ′ 17.9 ″ E )
- Ring road bridge in al-Mansura ( 31 ° 2 ′ 48.6 ″ N , 31 ° 20 ′ 56.7 ″ E )
- Bridge in Samannūd, swing bridge ( 30 ° 57 ′ 33.7 ″ N , 31 ° 14 ′ 44.9 ″ E )
- Zifta weir with road bridge, built 1881–1903, rebuilt 1949–1952, with 50 gates of 5 m each and a lock on the right bank with a 120 m × 17 m chamber ( 30 ° 44 ′ 37, renovated in 1998–2000) 5 ″ N , 31 ° 14 ′ 26.1 ″ E )
- New Zifta Bridge, four-lane bridge on the northern outskirts ( 30 ° 44 ′ 20.8 ″ N , 31 ° 14 ′ 59.2 ″ E )
- Zifta Bridge, 417 m long combined railway and road bridge having 6 truss sheets, built in 1903 ( 30 ° 43 '20.8 " N , 31 ° 15' 4.1" O )
- New motorway bridge north of Banha , probably ready in 2015 ( 30 ° 29 ′ 36.5 ″ N , 31 ° 11 ′ 27.4 ″ E )
- Motorway bridge (six lanes) at Banha ( 30 ° 29 ′ 0.6 ″ N , 31 ° 10 ′ 48.2 ″ E )
- Old Bridge in Banha ( Kafr Al Gazar ) ( 30 ° 28 ′ 14 ″ N , 31 ° 10 ′ 30.1 ″ E )
- Banha railway bridge with five trusses ( 30 ° 28 ′ 2.2 ″ N , 31 ° 10 ′ 30.1 ″ E )
- Muhammad Ali Barrages , built in 1939, with 34 8 m wide gates between 2.5 m thick pillars and a lock on the right bank with a 150 m × 17 m chamber ( 30 ° 11 ′ 44 ″ N , 31 ° 7 ′ 40, 6 ″ O )
- Delta Barrages below the separation of the Nile into the Rosetta and Damietta arms, a weir planned under Muhammad Ali Pascha by Eugène Mougel (Mougel Bey) and completed after his death in 1862, which had to be rehabilitated several times, most recently from 1885 to 1890, and finally through in 1939 the weir built 260 m downstream was replaced. It is 380 m long and has 51 gates, each 4.8 m wide, as well as a former lock on the right bank. ( 30 ° 11 ′ 36.6 ″ N , 31 ° 7 ′ 45.8 ″ E )
Bridges in Cairo
- 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
- Al Marazeek Bridge south of Heluan , combined rail and road bridge with nine steel girders ( 29 ° 47 ′ 35.8 ″ N , 31 ° 17 ′ 38.4 ″ E )
- Regional Ringstrasse Bridge, an eight-lane motorway bridge ( 29 ° 47 ′ 35.8 ″ N , 31 ° 17 ′ 38.4 ″ E )
- Al Wasta Bridge, four-lane road bridge ( 29 ° 20 ′ 47.8 ″ N , 31 ° 12 ′ 55.1 ″ E )
- Bani-Suwaif Bridge, four-lane road bridge ( 29 ° 3 ′ 26.2 ″ N , 31 ° 5 ′ 50.7 ″ E )
- Road bridge at Bani Masar, four-lane road bridge ( 28 ° 28 ′ 40.2 ″ N , 30 ° 50 ′ 28.7 ″ E )
- al-Minya Bridge, a four-lane road bridge ( 28 ° 5 ′ 31.5 ″ N , 30 ° 46 ′ 4.9 ″ E )
- Mallawi Bridge, a four-lane road bridge ( 27 ° 43 ′ 1.7 ″ N , 30 ° 52 ′ 17.7 ″ E )
- Asyut weir (El Khazan Bridge), dam wall completed in 1902 with 111 openings, lock on the left bank, two-lane road and bascule bridge. The weir regulates u. a. the water supply to the Ibrahimiyya Canal , which irrigates the fields in the governorates of Asyut , el-Minyā and Bani Suwaief over a length of 320 km . ( 27 ° 12 ′ 7.6 ″ N , 31 ° 11 ′ 21.4 ″ E )
- Asyut Ring Road Bridge, four-lane road bridge ( 27 ° 10 ′ 27.8 ″ N , 31 ° 12 ′ 58.5 ″ E )
- Bridge near Tema, probably completed in 2015 ( 26 ° 53 ′ 33.9 ″ N , 31 ° 29 ′ 3 ″ E )
- Achmīm Bridge in Sohag , four-lane road bridge (steel bridge) ( 26 ° 33 ′ 31.9 ″ N , 31 ° 42 ′ 10.6 ″ E )
- Sohag Bridge south of Sohag, four-lane road bridge (concrete bridge) ( 26 ° 32 ′ 26.9 ″ N , 31 ° 42 ′ 53.2 ″ E )
- Naga Hammadi barrage (2008) ( 26 ° 9 ′ 13 ″ N , 32 ° 8 ′ 47 ″ E )
- old Naga Hammadi dam (1930) ( 26 ° 8 ′ 12.1 ″ N , 32 ° 10 ′ 9.1 ″ E )
- Nag Hammadi railway bridge, double-track steel girder bridge with swing bridge ( 26 ° 2 ′ 44.4 ″ N , 32 ° 14 ′ 56.1 ″ E )
- Nag-Hammadi road bridge, two-lane steel girder bridge with swing bridge ( 26 ° 2 ′ 42.4 ″ N , 32 ° 14 ′ 57.2 ″ E )
- Qina Railway Bridge ( 26 ° 9 ′ 34.8 ″ N , 32 ° 40 ′ 52.4 ″ E )
- Dendera Bridge in Qina (across which the road leads to the Temple of Dendera ) ( 26 ° 8 ′ 57.2 ″ N , 32 ° 42 ′ 6.5 ″ E )
- Bridge at Luxor (7 km south of the city), four-lane road bridge ( 25 ° 38 ′ 10.1 ″ N , 32 ° 35 ′ 32.2 ″ E )
- Esna-Al-Gedeed Bridge (new weir), Esna ( 25 ° 19 ′ 3.4 ″ N , 32 ° 33 ′ 20 ″ E )
- Esna-Al-Qadeem Bridge (old Esna weir ), Esna ( 25 ° 18 ′ 26.5 ″ N , 32 ° 33 ′ 28.3 ″ E )
- Edfu Bridge ( 24 ° 59 ′ 1.9 ″ N , 32 ° 53 ′ 17.2 ″ E )
- Al Khattarah Bridge, four-lane cable - stayed bridge with two central pylons ( 24 ° 11 ′ 38.8 ″ N , 32 ° 51 ′ 56.8 ″ E )
- Aswan Dam (old dam), Aswan ( 24 ° 1 ′ 59.7 ″ N , 32 ° 51 ′ 58 ″ E )
- Aswan High Dam (Aswan High Dam) ( 23 ° 58 ′ 9.5 ″ N , 32 ° 52 ′ 46.5 ″ E )
Bridges between the Aswan Dam or Lake Nasser and Khartoum
- Dongola-Elsilaim Bridge (2009) in Dunqula , four-lane road bridge ( 19 ° 11 ′ 10.3 ″ N , 30 ° 29 ′ 22.6 ″ E )
- Ad-Dabba Bridge, four-lane road bridge ( 18 ° 2 ′ 42.2 ″ N , 30 ° 57 ′ 46.7 ″ E )
- Merowe Bridge, four-lane road bridge ( 18 ° 29 ′ 32.7 ″ N , 31 ° 49 ′ 4.4 ″ E )
- Merowe Dam (the road on the top of the dam is probably not open to the public) ( 18 ° 40 ′ 8 ″ N , 32 ° 3 ′ 1 ″ E )
- Atbara -Nile Bridge, four-lane road bridge south of Atbara, not to be confused with the bridges over the Atbara ( 17 ° 39 ′ 43.5 ″ N , 33 ° 58 ′ 21.6 ″ E )
- Schandi Bridge, four-lane road bridge ( 16 ° 41 ′ 46 ″ N , 33 ° 24 ′ 34.7 ″ E )
- Al Halfaia Bridge, six-lane motorway bridge ( 15 ° 42 ′ 50 ″ N , 32 ° 31 ′ 55.4 ″ E )
- Shambat Bridge , four-lane road bridge between Omdurman and al-Chartum Bahri ( 15 ° 38 ′ 39.3 ″ N , 32 ° 30 ′ 21.8 ″ E )
Bridges over the White Nile
- Old Omdurman Bridge , former railway bridge (1926), now four-lane road bridge ( 15 ° 36 ′ 49.6 ″ N , 32 ° 29 ′ 28.1 ″ E )
- Victory Bridge between Omdurman and Khartoum, six-lane road bridge over an island in the White Nile ( 15 ° 36 ′ 10.7 ″ N , 32 ° 29 ′ 30.9 ″ E )
- Bridge south of Khartoum, six-lane road bridge under construction, probably finished in 2015 ( 15 ° 30 ′ 45.5 ″ N , 32 ° 28 ′ 20.6 ″ E )
- Jebel-Aulia-Damm , dam with lock completed in 1937, expanded to include a power station in 2003 ( 15 ° 14 ′ 18.2 ″ N , 32 ° 29 ′ 4.9 ″ E )
- Ad Douiem Bridge, two-lane road bridge and causeway (2010) ( 14 ° 0 ′ 7.8 ″ N , 32 ° 19 ′ 43.5 ″ E )
- Kusti railway bridge with swing bridge (1910) between Kusti and Rabak ( 13 ° 8 ′ 40.3 ″ N , 32 ° 43 ′ 40.2 ″ E )
- Kusti Road Bridge (1983) ( 13 ° 8 ′ 24.6 ″ N , 32 ° 44 ′ 6.6 ″ E )
- Juba Bridge in Juba , the only Nile bridge in South Sudan ( 4 ° 49 ′ 22.4 ″ N , 31 ° 36 ′ 30.6 ″ E )
- Pakwach Bridge in Uganda , the only bridge over the Albert Nile ( 2 ° 27 ′ 33.6 ″ N , 31 ° 30 ′ 27.4 ″ E )
- Victoria Nile Bridge beneath Karuma Falls over the Victoria Nile ( 2 ° 14 ′ 35.6 ″ N , 32 ° 14 ′ 23.4 ″ E )
- Bujagali hydropower plant (no through road) ( 0 ° 29 ′ 52.5 ″ N , 33 ° 8 ′ 13.7 ″ E )
- Owen Falls Dam (Nalubaale Power Station) ( 0 ° 26 ′ 35.6 ″ N , 33 ° 11 ′ 6 ″ E )
- Jinja Bridge, railway bridge with walkway (1926) in the effluent of the Nile from the Victoria ( 0 ° 25 '57.9 " N , 33 ° 11' 30.1" O )
Bridges over the Blue Nile
Bridges in Khartoum
- Tuti Bridge to Tuti Island , four-lane suspension bridge ( 15 ° 36 ′ 49.5 ″ N , 32 ° 30 ′ 45.8 ″ E )
- Al-Mak-Nimr Bridge , four-lane cable-stayed bridge ( 15 ° 36 ′ 50 ″ N , 32 ° 31 ′ 51.3 ″ E )
- An-Nil-al-Azraq-Brücke , formerly combined railway and road bridge, steel truss bridge with bascule bridge built in 1907–1909, now two-lane road bridge ( 15 ° 36 ′ 57.2 ″ N , 32 ° 32 ′ 38 ″ E )
- Kubir Bridge (also Armed Forces Bridge), four-lane road bridge ( 15 ° 37 ′ 0.9 ″ N , 32 ° 33 ′ 17.4 ″ E )
- Al Mansheiya Bridge, four-lane road bridge ( 15 ° 35 ′ 56.7 ″ N , 32 ° 35 ′ 23.1 ″ E )
Bridges south of Khartoum
- Al-Hasaheisa Bridge near Rufa'a , two-lane road bridge ( 14 ° 44 ′ 48.2 ″ N , 33 ° 18 ′ 30.2 ″ E )
- Wad Madani Bridge, four-lane road bridge ( 14 ° 25 ′ 39 ″ N , 33 ° 30 ′ 25.7 ″ E )
- Sannar Dam (1925) with a single-lane road on the top of the dam ( 13 ° 32 ′ 50.3 ″ N , 33 ° 38 ′ 6.9 ″ E )
- Ad Damazin - Ash Shallal pontoon bridge below Roseires Dam ( 11 ° 48 ′ 35.3 ″ N , 34 ° 23 ′ 2.3 ″ E )
- Ad-Damazin-Ash Shallal concrete bridge below the Roseires dam, two-lane road bridge ( 11 ° 48 '3.6 " N , 34 ° 23' 1.3" O )
- Roseires Dam (1966, raised in 2013), (no public road) ( 11 ° 47 ′ 55 ″ N , 34 ° 23 ′ 15.5 ″ E )
- Bridge below the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (currently only construction site bridge ) ( 11 ° 12 ′ 55 ″ N , 35 ° 5 ′ 15.6 ″ E )
- Bridge to the area west of the Nile ( 10 ° 58 ′ 6.4 ″ N , 35 ° 11 ′ 6 ″ E )
- Bridge on the road from Nekemte to Bahir Dar ( 10 ° 17 ′ 30.8 ″ N , 37 ° 0 ′ 45.5 ″ E )
- Bridges on the north-south road N3 from Addis Ababa to Bahir Dar, old concrete arch bridge and new extradosed bridge ( 10 ° 4 ′ 32.8 ″ N , 38 ° 11 ′ 29.1 ″ E )
- Bridge on the B21 ( 10 ° 39 ′ 50 ″ N , 38 ° 30 ′ 13 ″ E )
- Second Portuguese bridge, stone arch bridge (1650) for pedestrians with a steel footbridge over the destroyed main arch ( 11 ° 13 ′ 3.6 ″ N , 37 ° 52 ′ 36.3 ″ E )
- Suspension bridge near the second Portuguese bridge, pedestrian bridge
- Portuguese bridge (1626) at the Tisissat waterfalls , pedestrian bridge ( 11 ° 29 ′ 14.7 ″ N , 37 ° 35 ′ 39.2 ″ E )
- Bridge in Bahir Dar (1961), two-lane road bridge on the N3 ( 11 ° 36 ′ 17.2 ″ N , 37 ° 24 ′ 30.1 ″ E )
- Tana weir ( Chara-Chara-Wehr ) (1996), regulates the discharge, not open to the public ( 11 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ N , 37 ° 24 ′ 37 ″ E )
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ International Coastal Road on the ACE Consulting Engineers website
- ↑ Mamdouh Shahin: Hydrology of the Nile Basin . Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam 1985, ISBN 0-444-42433-4 , p. 449.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Mamdouh Shahin: Hydrology of the Nile Basin . Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam 1985, ISBN 0-444-42433-4 , p. 449.
- ↑ Old Imbaba Bridge in Cairo Article in Cairobserver.com
- ^ Large Barrages Rehabilitation Program on EMWIS.org
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Old Imbaba Bridge in Cairo Article in Cairobserver.com
- ↑ 15th of May Bridge on ACE-Consultants.com
- ↑ The bridge was one of the first bridges to be repaired / built by Bridges to Prosperity
- ↑ Also built by Bridges to Prosperity