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MBTA - Bennett Street Overpass
Description
Former B&M Saugus Branch, now mostly converted to a rail-trail. This bridge is immediately adjacent to the junction with the Eastern Route mainline, so it may not end up being converted for trail use.
Facts
- Overview
- Pony/through plate girder bridge over Bennett Street on B&M Saugus Branch
- Location
- Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1912 by the New England Structural Co.
- Builders
- - B.W. Guppy (B&M Bridge Engineer)
- New England Structural Co. of Boston, Massachusetts
- Railroads
- - Boston & Maine Railroad (BM)
- Commuter Rail
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
- Design
- Pony plate girder
- Dimensions
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Total length: 59.9 ft.
- Also called
- BM - Bennett Street Overpass
BM - Bridge A122
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.45629, -70.96316 (decimal degrees)
42°27'23" N, 70°57'47" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 19/338579/4702306 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Lynn
- Inventory number
- BH 65646 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 24, 2015: New Street View added by Ian Martin