Design Arch bridge No. of spans 9 Longest span 28 m Bridge type Arch bridge Body of water Schuylkill River | Width two tracks Opened 1890 Location Philadelphia Material Rock | |
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Carries CSX Trenton Subdivision Crosses Kelly Drive, Schuylkill River, and Martin Luther King Drive (formerly West River Drive) Locale Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Similar Philadelphia and Reading, Schuylkill River, Fisher's Lane Bridge, Walnut Lane Bridge, Walt Whitman Bridge | ||
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Bridge at West Falls is a stone and iron plate girder bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that carries two CSX Trenton Subdivision tracks over Kelly Drive, Schuylkill River, and Martin Luther King Drive (formerly West River Drive).
It was built in 1890 by the Reading Railroad, and forms a "Y" junction with the adjacent Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Schuylkill River Viaduct (1854). The bridge consists of an 80-foot (24 m) stone arch over Kelly Drive and eight plate-girder spans that follow a 6-degree curve.
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