Clover Bar Bridge

Clover Bar Bridge
The Clover Bar highway and railway bridges.
Coordinates	53°34′20″N 113°22′20″W / 53.5721°N 113.3721°W
Carries	Alberta Highway 16
Crosses	North Saskatchewan River
Locale	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Official name	Clover Bar Bridge Beverly Bridge
History
Construction end	North span: 1953 South span: 1972

The Clover Bar Bridge is a pair of bridges that span the North Saskatchewan River in the city of Edmonton. The twin spans carry 3 lanes each of the Yellowhead Trail, the name given to Alberta Highway 16 within Edmonton city limits.

The original truss span was completed in the summer of 1953 and connected Beverly with mostly rural Strathcona County. Beverly was amalgamated with the City of Edmonton eight years later. Once the original span could no longer handle traffic volume, a steel girder bridge was built just to the south to carry eastbound traffic. This bridge, completed in 1972 is called the Beverly Bridge.^[1][2][3]

The Clover Bar Railway Bridge is just to the north of the original span. This 504 m long and 42 m high bridge was built in 1907-08 as an iron and concrete truss by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway company and is still in use.^[4]

References

1. "Aug. 18, 1953: Premier Manning first to drive of Clover Bar Bridge". Edmonton Journal. Postmedia Network. August 18, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
2. Herzog, Lawrence (November 13, 2008). "When Beverly stepped into the big time". Real Estate Weekly. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
3. Aubrey, Merrily K. (2004). "Naming Edmonton: from Ada to Zoie". University of Alberta Press. p. 22. ISBN 0-88864-423-X.
4. "Alberta's largest railway bridges". Forth Junction Project. Retrieved 11 October 2015.