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BLA - Severn River Swing Bridge

Anne Arundel County, Maryland

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B&ASL - Severn River Bridge

Removed

Photo taken by Douglas Butler in May 2016

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BH Photo #353647

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Overview
Lost Deck plate girder bridge over Severn River on Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad
Location
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Status
Removed
History
Built 1913; Removed in the 1960s
Railroads
- Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad (BLA)
- Interurban
- Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway (WB&A)
Design
Deck plate girder
Also called
WB&A - Severn River Swing Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.00086, -76.49226   (decimal degrees)
39°00'03" N, 76°29'32" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/370781/4317930 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Gibson Island
Inventory number
BH 72227 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

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Annapolis, Maryland (6)
Anne Arundel County, Maryland (23)
Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad (3)
Beam (14,470)
Built 1913 (817)
Built during 1910s (9,258)
Deck girder (5,083)
Girder (9,206)
Interurban (859)
 Lost (22,445)
Maryland (704)
Movable (2,861)
Plate girder (7,011)
Railroad (14,408)
Swing (1,374)
Timber stringer (3,718)
Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway (7)

Update Log 

  • April 3, 2018: Updated by Luke: Added dates
  • June 28, 2016: Updated by Alexander D. Mitchell IV: Added photo, corrected design and history
  • May 18, 2016: Updated by Luke: Edited info per forum comment.
  • May 18, 2016: Added by Douglas Butler

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BLA - Severn River Bridge
Posted December 26, 2016, by Mike mitchell (Mmitchell [at] lrwillsonandsons [dot] com)

Trussel went from point of land south of your dot and went strait across Severn

I remember the trussle to the mid 80's

BLA - Severn River Bridge
Posted December 26, 2016, by Mike mitchell (Mmitchell [at] lrwillsonandsons [dot] com)

Trussel went from point of land south of your dot and went strait across Severn

I remember the trussle to the mid 80's

B&ASL - Severn River Bridge
Posted May 18, 2016, by Barry (bllauver [at] toad [dot] net)

I wrote too quickly. The pointer has been moved to the correct location.

B&ASL - Severn River Bridge
Posted May 18, 2016, by Barry (bllauver [at] toad [dot] net)

I have lived near this crossing for almost fifty years. There was an accident on this bridge (the truss was left open) in 1913. Therefore this bride is older than 1913. The swing trestle was removed in the late 1960's, although the rest of the wooden trestle was not removed until the 1980's. The photograph gives some sense of how small the swing trestle was. The upper end of the Severn River above Annapolis has never been commercially important. The pointer is not anywhere near the location of the bridge. It crossed from Manresa to Wardour, upriver from the Naval Academy bridge and below the present US50 bridge.