Moerdijk bridges

The Moerdijk bridges in the Netherlands are bridges that connect the Island of Dordrecht with the Dutch province of North Brabant (Noord-Brabant) across the Hollands Diep.

The second bridge was built in the 1930s for road traffic, and is currently part of the A16 motorway.

A second railroad bridge was finished in 2006, as part of the HSL-Zuid project.

[1] At the beginning of the Battle of Holland, on 10 May 1940, bridges were captured during a paratroopers operation and held for 4 days until German forward forces arrived.

In 1944, both the road and railway bridge were destroyed by the Germans to prevent the Allied Forces from reaching the province South Holland.