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) 1969 Memorandum of General Information, page