List of road–rail bridges
Road–rail bridges are bridges shared by road and rail lines. Road and rail may be segregated so that trains may operate at the same time as cars. The rail track can be above the roadway or vice versa with truss bridges. Road and rail may share the same carriageway so that road traffic must stop when the trains operate, or operate together like a tram in a street.
Road–rail bridges are sometimes called combined bridges.
Afghanistan
- Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge between Termez and Jeyretan.
Argentina
- Transandine Railway rail tunnel converted to road use for time being, albeit single lane.
- Zárate–Brazo Largo Bridge
- San Roque González de Santa Cruz Bridge, between Posadas, Argentina, and Encarnación, Paraguay.
Australia
Current
- Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales now with parallel tunnel.
- Narrows Bridge, Perth, Western Australia
- Mount Henry Bridge, Perth, Western Australia
- Bridgewater Bridge, Hobart, Tasmania
- Burdekin Bridge, Queensland
- Bylong Tunnel used for single lane road, until railway completed
- Dickabram Bridge, Queensland
- Grafton Bridge, New South Wales – lifting span out of use. Also carries large water main instead of second railway track.
- Septimus, Queensland – Head-Menkens Road – Cane tram
- Swan River Bridge at Fremantle proposed to be rebuilt as combined bridge after flood damage; 1926.
- Bloomfield Coal Loop over New England Highway near Thornton
Former
- Menindee, New South Wales – separated in the 1970s.
- Penrith, New South Wales – separated in 1907.
- Pyrmont Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales.
- Tocumwal, New South Wales – separated in the 1980s.
- Murray Bridge, South Australia
- Paringa Bridge, South Australia
- Echuca -Moama, opened in 1879, road only since new rail-only bridge opened in 1989.
- Gonn Crossing, 1926, on the Kerang-Stony Crossing railway line. Road only since the rail line closed in 1964.
- Robinvale, Victoria, 1927, as part of the Lette railway line. Road only after construction of the line was abandoned in 1943. Replaced by a new road bridge in 2006.
- Camden, NSW, Rail bridge attached to the road bridge until branch closure in the 1960s.
- North Richmond NSW, Rail bridge attached to the road bridge on the Kurrajong Line until branch closure in 1952.
- Lapstone Viaduct NSW, rail viaduct on The Little Zig Zag converted to road traffic after the realignment of the Railway.
Bangladesh
- Jamuna Bridge
- Padma Bridge
Botswana
- Kazungula Bridge
Brazil
- Rodoferroviária Rollemberg-Vuolo Bridge over Paraná River
- Mixed Bridge of Marabá over Tocantins River
Bulgaria
- Vidin, Bulgaria – Calafat, Romania – 2013 single track
- Danube bridge to Romania
Burma
- Mu River
- Ye River – 240m
- Thanlwin Bridge in Moulmein, which is 2400m long
Cameroon
- Wouri River bridge, in Douala – almost unserviceable because of poor condition
- Bonabéri–Douala over Wouri River estuary
Canada
;British Columbia:
- Derwent Way Bridge, Delta-New Westminster
- Mission Railway Bridge, Mission-Abbotsford; Rail only since the opening of the road only Mission Bridge
;Ontario:
- Alexandra Bridge, Ottawa until the tracks were removed
- Prince Edward Viaduct, Toronto since 1966 when the subway was commissioned on the lower deck
- Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, Niagara Falls, Ontario, carries passenger rail on the upper level, commuter autos on the lower level between Ontario and New York
- Victoria Bridge, Montreal
- Quebec Bridge, Québec City
- The new Champlain Bridge when the Réseau électrique métropolitain will be installed
- St. Louis Bridge – 1915 rail only; 1928 road–rail; 1983; road only.
- Canadian Northern Railway Bridge – 1909–1960 road–rail; 1960 rail only;
- * also a swing bridge 1909–1939
- Crooked Bridge – 1930
- CPR Bridge rail 1908; rail and pedestrian 1909
China
- Caiyuanba Bridge
- Chaotianmen Bridge
- Daxie Bridge
- Dingshan Bridge
- Dongshuimen Yangtze River Bridge
- Ganjiang Bridge
- Hengyang Xiang River Road-Railway Bridge
- Huainan Huaihe Bridge
- Huanggang Yangtze River Bridge
- Jingzhou Yangtze River Road-Railway Bridge
- Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge
- Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge
- Qiansimen Bridge
- Qiantang River Bridge
- Second Qiantang River Bridge
- Shanghai Yangtze River Bridge
- Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge
- Tianxingzhou Yangtze River Bridge
- Tongling Yangtze River Road-Railway Bridge
- Wanghe Bridge
- Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge
- Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge
- Xinglin Bridge
- Yudong Yangtze River Bridge
- Zhaoqing Xi River Bridge
- Zhicheng Yangtze River Bridge
- Zhengxin Yellow River Bridge
- Zhujiang Bridge
former
- Binbei Bridge
- Songpu Bridge
Czech Republic
- Bechyně. In 1928 a bridge was constructed to carry the railway line and road from Tábor into Bechyně. Previously the line had stopped on the other side of a deep gorge from the town and access was by way of a steep road and narrow bridge. The rail line runs in the roadway for 100 m and traffic stopped by lights as for a grade crossing.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Kongolo Bridge
- Brazzaville–Kinshasa Bridge – proposed
- Matadi Bridge – railway yet to be used. Built 1983. Angola would like to use this bridge to reach their exclave of Cabinda.
Denmark
- Great Belt Fixed Link, the Western Bridge.
- Little Belt Bridge
- Øresund Bridge
- Masnedsund Bridge
- Storstrøm Bridge – A replacement bridge is under constriction, also road-rail, will have the same name
- King Frederik IX Bridge
- King Christian X Bridge in Sønderborg, railway closed.
- Oddesund Bridge
- Hadsund Bridge, railway closed, bridge replaced.
Egypt
- Proposed road-rail tunnel under Suez Canal
- Suez Canal road rail bridge at El Hammad
Estonia
- Papiniidu Bridge, Pärnu
Fiji
- On Viti Levu the CSR Company was obliged to provide road-rail bridges when it built bridges for the Cane Trains to their sugar mills, e.g. the two largest bridges over the Ba and Sigatoka Rivers. Many are now rail-only as separate road bridges has been built.
- The Ba Bridge has 19 spans, 17 standard spans and a short span at each end, and has been rail-only for many years. The Sigatoka Bridge has 27 spans. Both bridges are prone to hurricane damage due to extra flow of water; the Ba Bridge often disappears under water but is not always damaged.
- * Sigatoka Bridge was washed away by storms, January 2009.
Finland
- Ounaskoski bridge
- Bridge in Keminmaa
France
- Cize-Bolozon viaduct on the Ligne du Haut-Bugey built 1882, destroyed by the maquis in 1945, rebuilt 1950
- :fr:Ponts de Lyon#Pont Morand|Pont Morand, Lyon
- Pont de Recouvrance, Brest – road & tramway – includes lifting span
Germany
- Fehmarn Sound bridge
- Lindaunis Bridge
- Kattwykbrücke - Hamburg, new railroad bridge being build next to existing bridge, opening december 2020
- Moselbrücke Bullay – double deck road and rail bridge
- Oberbaumbrücke
- :de:Peenebrücke Wolgast
- Rügendamm
- Elbbrücke Lauenburg
Wartime
- River Rhine at Remagen
Ghana
- Unknown location with YouTube movie
Hong Kong
Current
- Lantau Link
- *Tsing Ma Bridge
- *Ma Wan Viaduct
- *Kap Shui Mun Bridge
- Hoi Wong Road across Tuen Mun River estuary
- Kwun Tong Road over Tsui Ping Nullah
- Castle Peak Road-Hung Shui Kiu over Hung Shui Kiu River
Former
- Bowrington Bridge, part of Hennessy Road across Bowrington Canal
Hungary
- Bridge over the Tisza near Kisköre
- Türr István híd over the Danube near Baja
India
- Bogibeel bridge, Assam
- Digha–Sonpur bridge, Bihar
- Godavari Bridge, Andhra Pradesh
- Naranarayan Setu, Assam
- Saraighat Bridge, Assam
- Koilwar Bridge, Bihar
- Rajendra Setu, Bihar
- Munger Ganga Bridge, Bihar
- Farakka Barrage, West Bengal
- Vivekananda Setu, West Bengal
- Strachey Bridge, Agra, Uttar Pradesh
- Old Naini Bridge, Allahabad
- Old Yamuna Bridge, Delhi
Indonesia
- – opened in 1893
Iraq
- River Tigris in Baghdad – 1950
Italy
- Adenige bridge on temporary Mont Cenis Railway
Japan
Current
- Great Seto Bridge, JR Shikoku
- Kansai International Airport Connecting Bridge, JR West and Nankai Railway
- Murayama Bridge, Nagano Electric Railway
- Rainbow Bridge, Yurikamome
Former
- Inuyama Bridge – separated in 2000.
North Korea
- Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge
South Korea
- Cheongdam Bridge
- Dongho Bridge
- Dongjak Bridge
- Yeongjong Bridge
Laos
- First Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge
Macau
- Ponte de Sai Van
Mozambique
- The Dona Ana Bridge has carried rail and road traffic, but not at the same time.
New Zealand
Current
- Alexandra – Manuherikia River, Central Otago Line – single level, shared deck
- Okahukura – Stratford–Okahukura Line between Taumarunui and Ohura – two level, road under rail 1933-2009
- Pekatahi – between Edgecumbe and Taneatua – single level, shared deck
- Taramakau River – Ross Branch – single level, shared deck
- Hindon, New Zealand – Taieri Gorge Railway – single level – converted from rail only
- Sutton, near Middlemarch, New Zealand – Taieri Gorge Railway – single level
- Napier – Palmerston North – Gisborne Line – single level, separate decks
- Inangahua – Stillwater–Ngawakau Line – single level, separate decks
- Arahura, near Hokitika – Ross Branch – single level, separate decks
- Seddon – Main North Line over Awatere River – two level, single lane road under rail ; see picture above of Coastal Pacific crossing the bridge in April 2007
Former
- Arahura River – between Greymouth and Hokitika – single level – replaced in 2009
- Blackball combined over Grey River
- Huntly 1915-1959 over Waikato River
- Rakaia – separated in 1939
- Waitaki – Separated around the late 1950s
Temporary
- Wairoa River – due to road bridge washaway 2008
Nigeria
- River Benue road rail bridge at Makurdi
Norway
- Rødberg Bridge carried the now closed Numedal Line to its terminus in Rødberg and the highway continuing to Geilo over Upsetelva in the center of Rødberg. The rails are still in place, covered by tarmac. There has been no rail traffic on Numedalsbanen since 1988. The railway is in the road, so car traffic had to stop when trains were passing.
- Bruhaug Bridge, also on Numedal Line carried both the railway and local car traffic over the river Numedalslågen. The road surface is wood.
- Hølendalen Bridge, near Moss. Motorway and railway, parallel separate bridges.
- Nygård Bridge in Bergen carries both the Bergen Light Rail and a street. A parallel bridge carries European Route E39.
Pakistan
Paraguay
- [|See above] for the cross-border bridge to Argentina
Philippines
- Guadalupe Bridge in the Makati-Mandaluyong border over the Pasig River. The rail bridge of Line 3 is above the road bridge carrying EDSA.
Portugal
- 25 de Abril Bridge
- Ponte Eiffel
- Ponte de Jafafe in Sernada do Vouga single level bridge over Vouga River used by Linha do Vouga
- Ponte Luís I
- Ponte de Valença in Valença, Portugal over Minho used by Ramal Internacional de Valença
Romania
- Vidin, Bulgaria – Calafat, Romania – 2013 single track
- Danube bridge to Bulgaria
- Bridge over the Siret river
Russia
- Khabarovsk Bridge over the Amur River
- Komsomolsk-on-Amur Bridge over the Amur River
- Nizhny Novgorod over River Oka
- Crimean Bridge over Kerch Strait
Serbia
- Ada Bridge
- Pančevo Bridge
- Road–Railway Bridge
- Žeželj Bridge
Slovakia
- Prístavný most over Danube river from Bratislava center to Petržalka district
South Africa
- Buffalo River at East London harbour
- Umkomaas, KZN south coast
- Port Shepstone, KZN south coast
- Caledon River at Maseru
- Fairy Knowe
- Qamata
- Tugela
Sri Lanka
- Manampitiya Bridge over the Mahaweli River – This narrow bridge is used only for rail since 2006.
- Oddamavadi Bridge across Valaichchenai lagoon in Eastern Province – Railway-only since April 2010
Sweden
- Øresund Bridge – 8 km long two-level bridge. Road on top, rail below.
- A few narrow same-track combined road-rail bridges:
- * in Oxberg
- * in Sveg
- * north of Moskosel.
- * in Kristianstad
- * in Norrköping
- Traneberg Bridge – in Stockholm, combined road and subway/metro rail bridge.
- Skanstull Bridge – in Stockholm, combined road and subway/metro rail bridge.
- Lidingöbron – 1 km long parallel road and rail. The road bridge was built 1971; before that the old bridge had road and double track railway in the same carriageway.
Switzerland
Thailand
- Rama VI Bridge
- First Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge
- Chulachomklao Bridge
Turkey
- Gülüşkür Bridge - Crosses the Keban Dam in eastern Turkey.
- Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge - Crosses the Bosphorus Straight, north of Istanbul. The bridge opened in 2016 with space allocated for a double-track railway which is still under construction.
Uganda
- Jinja
United Kingdom
Current
- Ashton Swing Bridge Preston. Crosses Preston Dock lock. Road traffic and pedestrians controlled by barriers from the lock control room. Still used by The Ribble Steam Railway and tour trains visiting from the main line, still running in 2012 the bridge is used for delivery of bitumen by railway to the Preston Total Bitumen plant. On arrival from Total's oil refinery in Immingham, North Lincolnshire, the tankers are parked at the exchange sidings. The steam railway staff divide the trains and shunt the tankers into Total Bitumen's siding for the bitumen processing and distribution plant, later reforming the trains for their return journey to Immingham.
- Britannia Bridge Robert Stephenson's famous, formerly 'tubular' railway bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales. Rebuilt as a road and rail bridge after a major fire in 1970.
- High Level Bridge Newcastle upon Tyne.
- King George V Bridge, Keadby, North Lincolnshire. Carries the A18 and the Doncaster-Scunthorpe railway across the River Trent. Opened in 1916, Althorpe railway station is on the western bank of the Trent, very close to the bridge, which has not lifted for some years.
- Belfast cross-harbour bridge, opened 1994–1995. See
- Kingsferry road and rail bridge, Isle of Sheppey. Built in 1960, until 2006 this was the only road crossing to the island. The bridge opens 20 times each day.
- Porthmadog, Wales, on the Welsh Highland Railway, Shared by this narrow gauge line and the main road through the town.
- Pont Briwet, over River Dwyryd, near Penrhyndeudraeth, North Wales – single track rail of the Cambrian Coast Line, beside wide single-carriageway road; re-opened in summer 2015 after major repairs.
Former
- Connel Bridge, near Oban, Scotland, was shared until the railway closed in the 1960s. A cantilever bridge.
- Ashton Avenue Bridge, Bristol road rail swing bridge.
- Queen Alexandra Bridge, still in road use across the River Wear between Deptford and Southwick in Sunderland, mineral railway abandoned in 1921 after 12 years' use.
- Newhaven Harbour, East Sussex, swing bridge standard gauge harbour branch shared with main coast road to Brighton, closed about 1962.
- Runcorn Railway Bridge – rail; pedestrian bridge alongside was open until 1965.
- Cross Keys Bridge, on the Norfolk /Lincolnshire border, both sides now in use for road traffic. Swing Bridge
United States
- Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel - a road-rail tunnel
- I Street Bridge carries two tracks of Amtrak/Union Pacific Railroad and two lanes of State Route 16 between Sacramento and West Sacramento.
- San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge carried two tracks of Key System between San Francisco and Oakland from 1936 until 1963.
- Mare Island Causeway is a lift bridge that links Mare Island to Vallejo, California, carrying a railroad track and a street.
- Pit River Bridge across Lake Shasta- 4 lanes of Interstate 5 and also Union Pacific Railroad
- Acosta Bridge – Carries two monorail tracks for the JTA Skyway and six lanes of State Road 13 in Jacksonville.
- Lake Street Bridge – rail on upper deck road on lower deck, bascule bridge.
- McKinley Bridge – rail removed in 1978.
- Wells Street Bridge – rail on upper deck, road on lower deck, bascule bridge.
- Fort Madison Toll Bridge – rail on lower deck, road on upper deck
- Government Bridge – rail on upper deck, road on lower deck, swing-span bridge
- Keokuk Rail Bridge – rail on lower deck, disused road on upper deck, swing-span bridge above Lock and Dam No. 19.
- Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Bridge – Truss bridge between Louisville, Kentucky and New Albany, Indiana over the Ohio River. Road portion closed in 1979 when roadway collapsed under an overweight truck.
- Almonaster Avenue Bridge – Bascule drawbridge in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Florida Avenue Bridge – Vertical lift drawbridge in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Huey P. Long Bridge – Truss bridge in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
- Huey P. Long Bridge – Truss bridge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- St. Claude Avenue Bridge – former road and rail bridge, nowadays it serves automotive and pedestrian traffic. New Orleans
- Longfellow Bridge – Four lane road with the MBTA Red Line in the median of the bridge connecting Boston and Cambridge over the Charles River.
- Portage Lake Lift Bridge connecting Hancock and Houghton. The world's heaviest and largest double deck vertical lift bridge. 4-lane road on upper deck, rail on lower deck. The lower deck was also paved so the bridge could be placed in an intermediate position to allow road traffic only.
- Camp Ripley Bridge
- Oliver Bridge connecting Duluth, Minnesota and Oliver, Wisconsin. Rail on upper deck, road on lower deck.
- Washington Avenue Bridge – in Minneapolis across the Mississippi River. Opened in 1965, rail added in 2011.
- Second Hannibal Bridge in Kansas City, Missouri across the Missouri River. Opened in 1917, had a road deck until 1956, when another bridge was built, but the rail deck is presently in use. Evidence of the road deck is still plainly visible.
- ASB Bridge in Kansas City, Missouri, across the Missouri River. Opened in 1911, it carried vehicular traffic until 1987, when new span was built. Bridge is unique that lower part is a vertical lift drawbridge, while without interrupting traffic on the upper deck.
- Eads Bridge in St. Louis, Missouri across the Mississippi River. Opened in 1874. It carries the road traffic on the upper deck and the St. Louis MetroLink on the lower deck.
- Broadway Bridge – Road and the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway
- Brooklyn Bridge – A road bridge that also carried elevated rapid transit service until 1944
- Manhattan Bridge – Road and the,, and trains of the New York City Subway
- Queensboro Bridge – A road bridge that also carried elevated rapid transit service until the early 1940s.
- Railroad St. Bridge – Rome, New York – Railroad St. and Mohawk, Adirondack and Northern Railroad share right-of-way on bridge.
- Roosevelt Avenue Bridge - double deck bascule span with IRT Flushing Line elevated line on upper level and Roosevelt Avenue on lower level over Flushing River, completed 1928
- Williamsburg Bridge – Road and the BMT Nassau Street Line of the New York City Subway
- Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, Niagara Falls, New York, carries passenger rail on the upper level, commuter autos on the lower level between Ontario and New York
- Clay Wade Bailey Bridge/C&O Railroad Bridge – Cincinnati to Newport, Kentucky over the Ohio River.
- Steel Bridge – A through truss, double lift bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon Carrying pedestrian, rail, automobile, bus, and MAX Light Rail, making it one of the most multi-modal bridges in the world.
- Benjamin Franklin Bridge – Suspension bridge carrying I-676 and PATCO Speedline trains between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey.
- Harahan Bridge - Through truss bridge across the Mississippi River connecting Memphis, Tennessee to West Memphis, Arkansas. Built for two railroad tracks and two one-lane wagonways cantilevered outside the through truss. Vehicular traffic moved to Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in 1949; one wagonway is planned to be converted to a pedestrian/bicycle way.
- High Bridge
Uzbekistan
- Amu Darya Bridge is the first bridge between Khorezm and Karakalpakstan, opened March 2004. It only has one track with the rails embedded into tarmac, used for trains and cars, one direction at a time, and is 681 m long. It now doubles the pontoon bridge that was the only link between Khorezm and the rest of Uzbekistan.
- See above for the cross-border bridge to Afghanistan
Venezuela
- Second Orinoco crossing
Vietnam
- Long Biên Bridge
Zambia
- Victoria Falls Bridge
Zimbabwe
- Beitbridge until 1995.
- Victoria Falls Bridge
Temporary
After a landslide on the Stromeferry road in Scotland in 2012, a 150m section of the parallel railway was paved with rubber tiles to allow road traffic to avoid a 250 km detour.
Proposed
- Italy – Messina Bridge
- Republic of the Congo – Democratic Republic of the Congo – Brazzaville-Kinshasa Bridge
- Yemen – Djibouti – Bridge of the Horns
- Botswana – Zambia – Kazungula bridge – 2010
- Sunda Strait – Indonesia
- Venezuela – Nigale Bridge
- Qatar–Bahrain Friendship Bridge for road and rail will be connecting Bahrain and Qatar.
Under construction
- Bangladesh – Padma bridge
- Botswana – Kazungula Bridge - to be completed in 2019
- China – Baijusi Yangtze River Bridge
- China – Humen Road-Railway Bridge
- China – Hutong Yangtze River Bridge
- China – Pingtan Road-Railway Bridge
- China – Third Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge
- China – Wufengshan Yangtze River Bridge