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File:1272jogginbridge.jpg|[[CPR1272|No. 1272]] on an eastbound freight at [[The Joggins Bridge]] in the winter of 1988.
 
File:1272jogginbridge.jpg|[[CPR1272|No. 1272]] on an eastbound freight at [[The Joggins Bridge]] in the winter of 1988.
 
File:Eb plow extra feb 1987.jpg|Eastbound snowplow extra at [[The Joggins Bridge]] in the winter of 1987. Locomotive is [[CPR1272|No. 1272]] and the snowplow is [[DAR401032|No. 401032]].
 
File:Eb plow extra feb 1987.jpg|Eastbound snowplow extra at [[The Joggins Bridge]] in the winter of 1987. Locomotive is [[CPR1272|No. 1272]] and the snowplow is [[DAR401032|No. 401032]].
Image:JogginsHardy.jpg|[[The Joggins Bridge]] with [[Digby]] in the background, circa 1910.
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Image:JogginsHardy.jpg|[[The Joggins Bridge|The First Big Joggins Bridge]] with [[Digby]] in the background, circa 1910.
 
Image:DAR Train 98 Smiths Cove, NS 7-3-1954.jpg|[[Train No. 98]] with Engine [[DAR2617|No. 2617]] over [[The Joggins Bridge|the bridge]] at The Joggins on July 3, 1954.
 
Image:DAR Train 98 Smiths Cove, NS 7-3-1954.jpg|[[Train No. 98]] with Engine [[DAR2617|No. 2617]] over [[The Joggins Bridge|the bridge]] at The Joggins on July 3, 1954.
 
File:Joggins 1 (1280x853).jpg|[[The Joggins Bridge]] September 1, 2011.
 
File:Joggins 1 (1280x853).jpg|[[The Joggins Bridge]] September 1, 2011.

Revision as of 03:18, 12 February 2020

The Joggins Bridge

Mile 16.5 Yarmouth Subdivision

Structure

1969: 285 feet long, two deck plate girder spans and with timber 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.

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 16.