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Danvers Rail Trail - Andover Street Overpass
Description
"The Danvers Railroad secured the Andover Street crossing rights in 1854, and in 1898, when the line was part of the Boston and Maine system, a thru plate girder bridge fabricated by the Boston Bridge Works was erected. Its replacement was mandated by the widening of Andover Street in 1957."-Mary E. McCahon, MBTA Historical Property Survey Phase II, 10/1987
Facts
- Overview
- Pony/through plate girder bridge over Andover Street/MA 114 on Danvers Rail Trail (former Newburyport Railroad)
- Location
- Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built 1957 replacing a previous 1898 structure
- Railroads
- - Boston & Maine Railroad (B&M; BM)
- Rail-to-trail
- Design
- Pony plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 56.0 ft.
Total length: 70.0 ft.
Deck width: 16.0 ft.
- Also called
- B&M Newburyport Branch Bridge 7.60
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.55624, -70.96724 (decimal degrees)
42°33'22" N, 70°58'02" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 19/338501/4713413 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Salem
- Inventory number
- BH 69684 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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