Trains of New Jersey Transit Atlantic City Line and Conrail
Crosses
Delaware River
Locale
Philadelphia, PA, and Pennsauken Township, NJ
Official name
Delair Memorial Railroad Drawbridge
Characteristics
Design
Steel Lift Bridge
Total length
4,396 feet (1,340 m)
Longest span
542 feet (165 m)
History
Opened
April 19, 1896[1]
Location
The Delair Bridge (officially the Delair Memorial Railroad Bridge[2]) is a railroad bridge with a vertical-lift section that crosses the Delaware River between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Pennsauken Township, New Jersey, just south of the Betsy Ross Bridge. The two-track bridge is part of Conrail Shared Assets Operations and is jointly used by Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation freight trains, as well as by the New Jersey Transit Atlantic City Line service.
^"New Delaware River Bridge". The Lewisburg Chronicle. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. April 18, 1896. p. 1. Retrieved May 19, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Drawbridge Operation Regulation; Delaware River, Pennsauken Township, NJ". Office of the Federal Register. April 12, 2017.
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