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The Blue Nile Road and Railway Bridge is a bascule bridge in Sudan, which links the capital Khartoum to the industrial city Khartoum North across the Blue Nile.
This table presents a non-exhaustive list of the road and railway bridges in Sudan with spans greater than 100 metres (328 ft) ... Road bridge Blue Nile. 1972:
A boat on the Blue Nile before the Al Mansheiya Bridge. Khartoum has a number of bridges across both tributaries of the Nile. The Mac Nimir Bridge, the Blue Nile Road & Railway Bridge, the Cooper Bridge (also known as the Armed Forces Bridge), and the Elmansheya Bridge span the Blue Nile
The Blue Nile was bridged in 1910, and the line extended to Sennar, but Khartoum North continued to serve as the central railroad station and yard. On August 20, 1998, the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory was destroyed by a cruise missile after the United States accused the factory of making VX (nerve agent) for al-Qaeda .
Blue Nile Road and Railway Bridge, crossing the Blue Nile in Khartoum, Sudan; El Ferdan Railway Bridge, crossing the Suez Canal near Ismailia, Egypt; Kafue Railway Bridge, crossing the Kafue River at Kafue, Zambia
Opened in 2007, the El Mek Nimr Bridge links the downtown area of Khartoum, Sudan, with the adjacent city of Khartoum North across the Blue Nile river. [1] It is named after Mek Nimr, a leader of the Ja'alin tribe in northern Sudan, who was famously defeated against the Egyptians.
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The Blue Nile [note 1] is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia.It travels for approximately 1,450 km (900 mi) through Ethiopia and Sudan.Along with the White Nile, it is one of the two major tributaries of the Nile and supplies about 85.6% of the water to the Nile during the rainy season.