The following movable bridges are within the State of Connecticut's borders.[1] Eight of the movable bridges are on the Amtrak route through Connecticut. These bridges are the Mianus River Railroad Bridge, the Norwalk River Railroad Bridge, the Saugatuck River Railroad Bridge, the Pequonnock River Railroad Bridge, the Housatonic River Railroad Bridge, the Amtrak Old Saybrook–Old Lyme Bridge, the Niantic River Bridge (East Lyme-Waterford), and Thames River Bridge.[2]
Name (Alternate name) | Location | Image | Completed/Replaced | NRHP | HAER |
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Bridgeport | 1909-1911; Removed in 2010[3] | ||||
East Washington Avenue Bridge | Bridgeport | Original: 1836[4] Second: Unknown Third: 1925 Fourth: 1998 | (third bridge) | ||
Grand Street Bridge | Bridgeport | 1916-1919; Removed in 1999[5] | |||
Bridgeport | 1902; Replaced in 1996 | ||||
Pleasure Beach Bridge | Bridgeport | 1927 | |||
Yellow Mill Bridge | Bridgeport | 1927-1929 | |||
East Haddam-Haddam | 1913 | ||||
East Lyme-Waterford | 1921; Replaced in 1991 | ||||
Niantic River Railroad Bridge | East Lyme-Waterford | 1907; Replaced 2010-2013[6] | |||
Greenwich | 1904 | ||||
Groton-New London | 1919 Replaced 2008[7] | ||||
Groton-Stonington | 1922 | ||||
Mystic River Railroad Bridge | Groton-Stonington | 1919; Replaced 1984 | |||
Middletown-Portland | 1911 | ||||
Milford-Stratford | 1905 | ||||
Washington Bridge | Milford-Stratford | 1921 | |||
New Haven | 1899; Replaced 1992 | ||||
Ferry Street Bridge | New Haven | 1940 | |||
Grand Avenue Swing Bridge | New Haven | 1896; Replaced 1984 | |||
Tomlinson Bridge | New Haven | 1924; Replaced 1994-2002 | |||
New London | 1891; Replaced 1984 | ||||
Norwalk | 1896 | ||||
Old Saybrook-Old Lyme | 1907 | ||||
Westport | 1884 | ||||
Westport | 1905 | ||||