Queensborough Railway Bridge

Queensborough Railway Bridge
Coordinates	49°11′50″N 122°55′24″W / 49.1973°N 122.9233°W / 49.1973; -122.9233
Crosses	North Arm of the Fraser River
Locale	New Westminster Queensborough
Owner	Southern Railway of British Columbia (SRY)[1]
History
Opened	1891
Rebuilt	1913, 1951
Statistics
Daily traffic	8–10 freight trains[1]
Location

The Queensborough Railway Bridge, built in 1891 by the city of New Westminster and rebuilt in 1913 and 1951 by the British Columbia Electric Railway, is a swing bridge over the North Arm of the Fraser River in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. The bridge connects the community of Queensborough, which is part of New Westminster on Lulu Island, to the rest of New Westminster on the Burrard Peninsula. It was originally a road and rail bridge, but the road part of the bridge was shut down after the opening of the four-lane Queensborough Bridge in 1960.^[2]

In the early morning of June 28, 2011, the bridge was damaged when it was hit by a gravel barge owned by Lafarge Canada that was being tugged downstream. The bridge reopened for rail traffic on July 30,^[3] although boat traffic took longer to be restored.^[4]

• List of bridges in Canada

• Marine investigation report M11W0091 — from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB)
• TSB: Fatigue, inexperience led to barge collision with B.C. rail bridge — a news article from Professional Mariner magazine

49°11′50″N 122°55′24″W / 49.1973°N 122.9233°W / 49.1973; -122.9233

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