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Dona Ana Railway Bridge (CLOSED For Vehicles)
Located in
Mozambique :: Mozambique
:: Sena
Category:
Road Marker :: Bridge
The Dona Ana Bridge spans the lower Zambezi River between the towns of Vila de Sena and Mutarara, effectively linking the two halves of the country. It was originally constructed as a railway bridge to link Malawi and the Moatize coal fields to the port of Beira.
The 3.67 kilometres long Dona Ana Bridge was at that time the longest railway bridge in Africa and it is the longest bridge across the Zambezi. The bridge comprises 33 spans of 80m and 7 spans of 50m and was built by the Portuguese in 1934. It was rendered unusable in the 1980s, during the Mozambican Civil War, but USAID assisted with the repairs and it was converted to a single-lane bridge for vehicle traffic.
The bridge was completely closed to vehicular traffic in October 2006 for rehabilitation and re-conversion to a rail bridge and was re-opened as a rail bridge in 2009. (Source: Wikipedia)
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