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Starrucca Viaduct is a stone arch bridge that spans Starrucca Creek near Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, in the United States.Completed in 1848 at a cost of $320,000 (equal to $11,268,923 today), it was at the time the world's largest stone railway viaduct and was thought to be the most expensive railway bridge as well.
Meschio Railway Bridge, crossing the Meschio River between Sacile and Ponte della Muda in Italy; Moscow-Riga Railroad Bridge, crossing the Moscow Canal between Tushino and Shchukino Districts in northwestern Moscow, Russia; New Railway Bridge, crossing the Sava river in Belgrade, Serbia
[4] [5] The bridge spans the Chenab River at a height of 359 m (1,178 ft) above the river, making it the world's highest rail bridge and the world's highest arch bridge. [6] [7] The bridge was fully completed and was inaugurated in August 2022. [3] It is built between the Sangaldan Railway Station and the Reasi Railway Station.
The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge carries Norfolk Southern rail lines across the Susquehanna River between Lemoyne, Pennsylvania and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.Some of its concrete piers encase stone masonry piers from an earlier truss bridge on this site, completed in 1891 by the Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Railroad, which was then acquired by the Philadelphia and Reading ...
The original bridge was replaced in 1858 by a timber trestle bridge carrying two tracks [4] with the tight curve of the original railway removed by rebuilding the bridge on a more oblique angle, as seen today. [5] The current bridge was designed by the Victorian Railways and the construction contract was let to David Munro & Co in 1886, the ...
AZON (or Azon), from "azimuth only", was one of the world's first guided weapons, deployed by the Allies and contemporary with the German Fritz X.. Officially designated VB-1 ("Vertical Bomb 1"), it was invented by Major Henry J. Rand and Thomas J. O'Donnell during the latter stages of World War II as the answer to the difficult problem of destroying the narrow wooden bridges that supported ...
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Barnes Railway Bridge: Barnes, London: 1895: Carries the Hounslow Loop Line over the River Thames: Bassaleg Viaduct: Newport, Wales: 1826: Stone arch: II* Second-oldest operational railway bridge in the world, after the Skerne Bridge. Battersea Railway Bridge a.k.a. Cremorne Bridge: Battersea, London: 185 m (607 ft) 1863: Wrought iron arch