General Information
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Railroad (railway) bridge |
|---|---|
| Plan view: |
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| Structure: |
Parallel-chord truss bridge |
| Material: |
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| Structure: |
approach viaducts: Semi-circular arch bridge |
| Material: |
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| Structure: |
main span: Deck truss bridge |
| Material: |
main span: Steel bridge |
Awards and Distinctions
Location
| Location: |
Eglisau, Zurich, Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 47° 34' 39.57" N 8° 30' 37.18" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 90 m | |
| total length | 457 m | |
| span lengths | 9 x 15.0 m - 90.0 m - 9 x 15.0 m - 2 x 12.0 m | |
| height above valley floor or water | 64 m | |
| number of tracks | 1 | |
| abutments | number | 2 |
| pier-abutments | number | 7 |
| piers | number | 13 |
| maximum height | 50.0 m | |
| truss | height | 9 m |
Cost
| cost of construction | Swiss Franc 980 000 |
Materials
| piers |
masonry
|
|---|---|
| truss |
steel
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| abutments |
masonry
|
| pier-abutments |
masonry
|
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Eglisau railway bridge, or Eisenbahnbrücke Eglisau, is a single-track railway bridge which carries the Eglisau to Neuhausen line across the Rhine in Switzerland. Both ends of the bridge lie within the municipality of Eglisau and the canton of Zurich.
Technical Details
The bridge was built between the years of 1895 and 1897 by the Swiss Northeastern Railway at a cost of 980,000 Swiss francs.
The bridge has a total length of 439 metres (1,440 ft) and has a height of 50 metres (160 ft) above river level. The principal span comprises a 90 metres (300 ft) long and 9 metres (30 ft) high iron truss bridge. 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.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Eglisau railway bridge" and modified on December 7, 2023 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
- Robert Moser (designer)
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2017): Examination of Two Riveted Railway Bridges over the River Rhine. In: (2017): Engineering History and Heritage Structures – Viewpoints and Approaches. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), Zurich (Switzerland), ISBN 978-3-85748-154-3, pp. 161-166.
- (1989): Historische eiserne Brücken. In: Schweizer Ingenieur und Architekt, v. 107, n. 50 (14 December 1989).
- (2012): Nachweis der Ermüdungssicherheit von Brücken [Teil 1]. Veranlassung, Ziel und Messkonzept des Monitoring-Projekts "Bahnbrücke Eglisau". In: Stahlbau, v. 81, n. 7 (July 2012), pp. 504-509.
- (2010): Umgang mit genieteten Bahnbrücken von hohem kulturellem Wert. In: Stahlbau, v. 79, n. 3 (March 2010), pp. 209-219.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20008608 - Published on:
15/03/2003 - Last updated on:
20/06/2023
