Omdurman Bridge

The Old Omdurman Bridge ( also redemption Bridge, or Old White Nile Bridge ) is a steel truss bridge to traffic in Sudan and the oldest bridge of the conurbation al - Khartoum.

It connects Khartoum on the White Nile to Omdurman. The shore road on the Blue Nile in Khartoum ( Sharia al - Nil ) is extended to the west and crosses the bridge to the nearby parliament building on the other side. The bridge was designed by the London engineering firm Sir Douglas & Francis Fox and from 1924 to 1926 by the Dorman Long and Co. Ltd.. built. The working for the engineering firm construction supervisor was Georges Camille Imbault, who had worked for the office even at the Victoria Falls Bridge. It is 613 meters long and is supported by seven pillars round pairs. Originally it consisted of seven 74,20 m long trusses and a 92.50 m long swing bridge and was intended for light trains. Later the tracks were converted into lanes for road and outdoor grown on both sides of the bridge each another lane. From 2004 to 2006, the bridge was set by a South African construction company in status.

External links and sources

• Photo of the bridge from 2006
• Old Omdurman Bridge. In: Structurae.
• The company Schuessler plan to bridge