List of vertical-lift bridges

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This is a list of vertical-lift bridges.

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Australia

The Bridgewater Bridge is one of the last remaining operational vertical-lift bridges in Australia Bridgewater Causeway Crop.jpg
The Bridgewater Bridge is one of the last remaining operational vertical-lift bridges in Australia

Belgium

Brazil

Canada

China

A ferry is crossing the lifted Haimen Bridge Hai He Xia You Tong Hang De Huo Lun .jpg
A ferry is crossing the lifted Haimen Bridge

France

The Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas's approx. 110-metre (360 ft) lift span is likely the longest in Europe, but that of the Pont Gustave-Flaubert is very nearly as long. Pont Jacques-Chaban-Delmas leve 02.JPG
The Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas's approx. 110-metre (360 ft) lift span is likely the longest in Europe, but that of the Pont Gustave-Flaubert is very nearly as long.

Germany

Kattwyk Bridges, in Hamburg, Germany, left bridge with its lift span raised Neue (links) und alte Kattwykbrucke 2020-01.jpg
Kattwyk Bridges, in Hamburg, Germany, left bridge with its lift span raised

Indonesia

Italy

Ponte Due Giugno in Fiumicino, Italy Ponte2giugno.jpg
Ponte Due Giugno in Fiumicino, Italy

Japan

The Netherlands

The Botlek bridge in Rotterdam has two lifting spans of 87x50 m (95x55 yd), each with a surface area approaching a football field. Botlekbrug 3.jpg
The Botlek bridge in Rotterdam has two lifting spans of 87×50 m (95×55 yd), each with a surface area approaching a football field.

Romania/Bulgaria

Russia

Sweden

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States

Alabama

Arkansas

California

Tower Bridge in Sacramento, California Tower Bridge Sacramento edit.jpg
Tower Bridge in Sacramento, California

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

The Main Street Bridge in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. Main St Bridge, Jacksonville FL Pano.jpg
The Main Street Bridge in downtown Jacksonville, Florida.

Georgia

Illinois

Kentucky

PortlandCanalEntrance.jpg
The vertical-lift section of the Fourteenth Street Bridge at the east entrance to the Portland Canal in Louisville, Kentucky.

Louisiana

Maine and New Hampshire

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota and Wisconsin

Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, Minnesota USEPA GL collection 148 DuluthAerialLiftBridge.jpg
Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, Minnesota

Missouri

Montana

New York City and northern New Jersey

New York (upstate)

Two Erie Canal lift bridges in Lockport, New York, the nearest one shown raised for canal traffic (and closed to road traffic). The pedestrian stairs allow foot traffic to cross the raised span. Initially these bridges normally remained open for canal traffic and closed on demand for the sparse road traffic of the early 20th century. In 2011, the Adam Street Lift Bridge (in the background) was closed and left in the raised position. This image was taken in July 2010. Erie Canal Lift Bridge Lockport July 2010.JPG
Two Erie Canal lift bridges in Lockport, New York, the nearest one shown raised for canal traffic (and closed to road traffic). The pedestrian stairs allow foot traffic to cross the raised span. Initially these bridges normally remained open for canal traffic and closed on demand for the sparse road traffic of the early 20th century. In 2011, the Adam Street Lift Bridge (in the background) was closed and left in the raised position. This image was taken in July 2010.

North Carolina

Ohio

Oregon and Washington (state)

Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon SteelBridgeOpen1.jpg
Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon
The Interstate Bridge, on Interstate 5 between Oregon and Washington, is one of only very few opening bridges on the national Interstate Highway System. Interstate Br lift span raised, barge passing under.jpg
The Interstate Bridge, on Interstate 5 between Oregon and Washington, is one of only very few opening bridges on the national Interstate Highway System.

Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey

Texas

Virginia

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steel Bridge</span> Bridge in Portland, Oregon

The Steel Bridge is a through truss, double-deck vertical-lift bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States, opened in 1912. Its lower deck carries railroad and bicycle/pedestrian traffic, while the upper deck carries road traffic, and light rail (MAX), making the bridge one of the most multimodal in the world. It is the only double-deck bridge with independent lifts in the world and the second oldest vertical-lift bridge in North America, after the nearby Hawthorne Bridge. The bridge links the Rose Quarter and Lloyd District in the east to Old Town Chinatown neighborhood in the west.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bayonne Bridge</span> Bridge between New Jersey and New York

The Bayonne Bridge is an arch bridge that spans the Kill Van Kull between Staten Island, New York and Bayonne, New Jersey. It carries New York State Route 440 and New Jersey Route 440, with the two roads connecting at the state border at the river’s center. It has the sixth-longest steel arch mainspan in the world, the longest in the world at the time of its completion. The bridge is also one of four connecting New Jersey with Staten Island; the other two roadway bridges are the Goethals Bridge in Elizabeth and Outerbridge Crossing in Perth Amboy, and the rail-only span is the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge, all of which cross the Arthur Kill.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Swing bridge</span> Bridge that rotates horizontally around a vertical axis

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">14th Street bridges</span> 3 bridges across the Potomac River connecting Arlington, VA and Washington, D.C., USA

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Morris Canal</span> Canal in New Jersey

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">NJ Transit Rail Operations</span> Commuter rail division of NJ Transit

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Broadway Bridge (Manhattan)</span> Bridge in New York City

The Broadway Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge across the Harlem River Ship Canal in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It connects the neighborhoods of Inwood on Manhattan Island and Marble Hill on the mainland. The bridge consists of two decks. The lower deck carries Broadway, which is designated as U.S. Route 9 at this location. The upper deck carries the New York City Subway's IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, serving the 1 train.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Moveable bridge</span> Bridge that moves to allow passage, usually of watercraft

A moveable bridge, or movable bridge, is a bridge that moves to allow passage for boats or barges. In American English, the term is synonymous with drawbridge, and the latter is the common term, but drawbridge can be limited to the narrower, historical definition used in some other forms of English, in which drawbridge refers to only a specific type of moveable bridge often found in castles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Huey P. Long Bridge (Jefferson Parish)</span> Road and railroad bridge in Louisiana, U.S.

The Huey P. Long Bridge, located in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, is a cantilevered steel through-truss bridge that carries a two-track railroad line over the Mississippi River at mile 106.1, with three lanes of US 90 on each side of the central tracks. It is several kilometers upriver from the city of New Orleans. The East Bank entrance is at Elmwood, Louisiana, and the West Bank at Bridge City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Florida Avenue Bridge</span> Bridge in New Orleans

The Florida Avenue Bridge is a vertical lift bridge spanning the Industrial Canal in New Orleans, Louisiana. The bridge has one railroad track, two vehicle lanes and two sidewalks. A parallel high-elevation four-lane roadway bridge is planned.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Delair Bridge</span> Bridge in and Pennsauken Township, New Jersey

The Delair Bridge is a railroad bridge with a vertical-lift section that crosses the Delaware River between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Pennsauken Township, New Jersey, just south of the Betsy Ross Bridge. The two-track bridge is part of Conrail Shared Assets Operations and is jointly used by Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation freight trains, as well as by the New Jersey Transit Atlantic City Line service.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">International Railway Bridge</span> Bridge in Ontario and Buffalo, New York

The International Railway Bridge is a two-span swing bridge carrying the Stamford Subdivision of the Canadian National Railway across the Niagara River between Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, and Buffalo, New York, United States. It was originally built in 1873 for the International Bridge Company by Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski and D.L. MacPherson.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harlem River Lift Bridge</span> Bridge between Manhattan and the Bronx, New York

The Harlem River Lift Bridge is a vertical lift bridge carrying the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line, Harlem Line, and New Haven Line across the Harlem River between the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx in New York City. The average weekday ridership on the lines is 265,000.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tower Bridge (Sacramento, California)</span> Bridge in Sacramento and West Sacramento, California

The Tower Bridge is a vertical lift bridge across the Sacramento River, linking West Sacramento in Yolo County to the west, with the capital of California, Sacramento, in Sacramento County to the east. It has also been known as M Street Bridge. It was previously a part of U.S. Route 40 until that highway was truncated to east of Salt Lake City as well as US Route 99W, which served the western portion of the Sacramento Valley from Sacramento to Red Bluff. The bridge is maintained by the California Department of Transportation as part of State Route 275 and connects West Capitol Avenue and Tower Bridge Gateway in West Sacramento with the Capitol Mall in Sacramento.

Transportation in New York is made up of some of the most extensive and one of the oldest transportation infrastructures in the country. Engineering difficulties because of the terrain of the State of New York and the unique issues of New York City brought on by urban crowding have had to be overcome since the state was young. Population expansion of the state generally followed the path of the early waterways, first the Hudson River and then the Erie Canal. Today, railroad lines and the New York State Thruway follow the same general route.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kingsferry Bridge</span> Road-rail bridge in Kent, England

The Kingsferry Bridge is a combined road and railway vertical-lift bridge which connects the Isle of Sheppey to mainland Kent in South East England. The seven-span bridge has a central lifting span which allows ships to pass.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Landing Masonry Bridge</span> Bridge in Landing, New Jersey

The Landing Masonry Bridge, also designated Bridge 44.53, is a 136-foot (41 m) stone structure built in 1907 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in Landing, New Jersey, United States. Located 44.53 miles up the rail line from Hoboken Terminal, the bridge carries the two-lane Morris County Route 631 over the Morristown Line and Montclair-Boonton Line railroad tracks maintained by New Jersey Transit, and sits several hundred feet north of NJT's Lake Hopatcong Station. By 2009, it was deteriorated and structurally deficient, and plans were announced for it to be replaced with a four-lane bridge by NJT and the New Jersey Department of Transportation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dock Bridge</span> United States historic place

Dock Bridge is a pair of vertical lift bridges crossing the Passaic River at Newark, Essex County and Harrison, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, used exclusively for railroad traffic. It is the seventh crossing from the river's mouth at Newark Bay and is 5.0 miles (8.0 km) upstream from it. Also known as the Amtrak Dock Vertical Lift, it carries Amtrak, NJ Transit, and PATH trains. It is listed on the state and federal registers of historic places.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paringa Bridge</span> Bridge in Paringa, South Australia

The Paringa Bridge carries the Sturt Highway across the Murray River in Paringa, South Australia. Until 1982, it also carried the Barmera railway line.

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