The Joggins Bridge

The Joggins Bridge

Mile 16.5

Structure

1969: 285 feet long, two deck plate girder spans and with pile trestle approaches.(1)

History

This was originally a long and challenging tidal bridge, one of the difficult and expensive bridges along with the Bear River Bridge and the Clementsport Bridge of the "missing link" which delayed the Digby-Annapolis connection for years. Over the years the bridge spans and pile trestle were progressively replaced by fill, eventually becoming a long embankment with a few short spans.

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  Train No. 98 with Engine No. 2617 over the bridge at The Joggins on July 3, 1954.

References

(1) Memorandum of General Information on the Dominion Atlantic Railway, Feb. 17, 1969, page 16, Dominion Atlantic Railway, Library and Archives Canada HE2810 D7 D7 fol., page