Blue Nile Road and Railway Bridge

The on - Nil -al- azraq Bridge (Arabic كوبرى النيل الأزرق, English Blue Nile Road & Railway Bridge, also Blue Nile Bridge ) is a steel truss arch bridge for rail and car traffic in Sudan and the oldest bridge of the conurbation al - Khartoum.

It was built from 1907 to 1909 by the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Co., to join the agricultural areas of the Jazirah level with the deep-sea port Port Sudan on the Red Sea.

The bridge connects Khartoum on the Blue Nile with al - Khartoum Bahri and is located in close proximity to the University of Khartoum. It is 518 m long, had a rail track and two together 6.5 m wide lanes for car traffic, but is used only for car traffic. It consists of seven trusses with spans of 66.6 m and a bascule bridge at the north end of 34 m span.

To her relief was inaugurated in October 2007, about one kilometer west of the center of Khartoum, the new Al -Mak - Nimir Bridge. A third bridge from Khartoum on the Blue Nile to Bahri is completed in 2009, Tuti Bridge that leads into two sections on the Tuti Island.