Hamm Railway Bridge

The Hamm Railway Bridge (German: Hammer Eisenbahnbrücke) carries the Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway over the Rhine between the Düsseldorf suburb of Hamm and the Neuss district of Rheinparkcenter in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

[1] Between July and September 1896, the approaches to the bridge were repaired and the track body was renewed under traffic.

[1] After 1896 the greatly increasing train traffic necessitated the building of additional infrastructure to complement the bridge.

It was built with the same distance between the piers, with a more modern and stronger superstructure as an iron truss arch.

During the Second World War, the U.S. Army conquered the neighbouring town of Neuss on 1 March 1945.

For the final reconstruction of the northern bridge, the least damaged arches of the identical southern bridge were substituted for the temporary spans; this exchange was completed in November 1947, removing the need for speed or weight restrictions.

Ruins of the old security fort (east bank)
Hamm Bridge and ruins of its predecessor