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The Eglisau railway bridge, or ''Eisenbahnbrücke Eglisau'', is a single-track railway bridge which carries the Eglisau to Neuhausen line across the
Eglisau Railroad Bridge from Structurae
Railway bridges in Switzerland Bridges over the Rhine Bridges completed in 1897 19th-century architecture in Switzerland {{Switzerland-bridge-struct-stub
The Eglisau railway bridge, or ''Eisenbahnbrücke Eglisau'', is a single-track railway bridge which carries the Eglisau to Neuhausen line across the Rhine
The Rhine ( ) is one of the List of rivers of Europe, major rivers in Europe. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein border, then part of the Austria–Swit ...
in Switzerland
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. Both ends of the bridge lie within the municipality of Eglisau and the canton of Zurich
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.
Technical Details
The bridge was built between the years of 1895 and 1897 by theSwiss Northeastern Railway
The Swiss Northeastern Railway (''Schweizerische Nordostbahn''; NOB) was an early railway company in Switzerland. It also operated shipping on Lake Constance (''Bodensee'') and Lake Zürich. Until the merger of the Western Swiss Railways into the ...
at a cost of 980,000 Swiss franc
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s.
The bridge has a total length of and has a height of above river level. The principal span comprises a long and high iron
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truss bridge
A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units. The connected elements, typically straight, may be stressed from tension, compression, or ...
. Several natural stone masonry approaches with piers up to 50m in height lead to the bridge from the north and south of the steel truss. The original carriageway, consisting of a ballasted track on Zores iron profiles, was replaced by a steel trough with ballast in 1982/1983. Several joints of the truss girder were also strengthened
using post-tensioned bolts, and the steel elements were entirely repainted for corrosion protection.
An engineering study in 2013 confirmed an additional service duration of at least 50 years for the bridge.
See also
* List of bridges over the RhineReferences
Bibliography
*External links
*Eglisau Railroad Bridge from Structurae
Railway bridges in Switzerland Bridges over the Rhine Bridges completed in 1897 19th-century architecture in Switzerland {{Switzerland-bridge-struct-stub