Morrisville – Trenton Railroad Bridge

Morrisville – Trenton Railroad Bridge
	A SEPTA train when crossing the bridge in 2009
use	Railway bridge
Crossing of	Delaware River
place	Morrisville and Trenton
construction	Arch bridge
overall length	376 m
width	16 m
Longest span	18 m
opening	1903
planner	William H. Brown
	location

40.2082 -74.7672Coordinates: 40 ° 12 ′ 30 ″ N , 74 ° 46 ′ 2 ″ W.

The Morrisville – Trenton Railroad Bridge is an arched railway bridge over the Delaware River between Morrisville in Pennsylvania and Trenton in New Jersey .

Subdivision of the arch segments into 12 offset arches.

The bridge was commissioned by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1903 and is part of the Northeast Corridor . It runs four tracks that are now used by Amtrak , SEPTA and New Jersey Transit . The last arch of the bridge on the Trenton side spans one direction of the John Fitch Way on New Jersey Route 29 .

The bridge has 18 arches with a span of 18.3 m each and a total length of 376 m. For reasons of symmetry, two of the 16 pillars are 6.7 m wide, while the remaining pillars are 2.4 m wide. This optically divides the 18 arches into three groups of six arches each. The pillars are not aligned at 90 ° to the bridge, but at an angle of 71.5 °. This was achieved by dividing the arches into 12 individual arch segments that are slightly offset from one another.

The Morrisville – Trenton Railroad Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 (NRHP #: 79001502).

Web links

Commons : Trenton-Morrisville Railroad Bridge - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Pennsylvania Railroad, Delaware River Bridge, Spanning Delaware River, South of US Route 1, Morrisville, Bucks County, PA. Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. PA-512.

Individual evidence

^ Justin M. Spivey: Pennsylvania Railroad, Delaware River Bridge. Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. PA-512, Washington, DC 2000, pp. 2 f.
↑ Terry Karschner: Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge at Trenton over Delavare River - National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form. United State Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1978.

Upstream
Trenton – Morrisville Toll Bridge

Crossing the Delaware River

Downstream
Delaware River – Turnpike Toll Bridge

[1] Justin M. Spivey: Pennsylvania Railroad, Delaware River Bridge. Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. PA-512, Washington, DC 2000, pp. 2 f.

[2] Terry Karschner: Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge at Trenton over Delavare River - National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form. United State Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1978.