[2] It was blown up for the final time on September 13, 1944, by retreating Germans and was later replaced with the Gdański Bridge.

These plans were abandoned and the bridge was built solely for road transport (with tracks for horse-drawn trams).

[4] The choice fell much further north, at the Warsaw Citadel (south of the fortress).

The existing Railway Bridge was handed to the city and adapted for road and pedestrian traffic only.

The bridge today stands in exactly the same place as its pre-war counterparts.