Haus-Knipp railway bridge

The Haus-Knipp railway bridge is a railway bridge over the Rhine north of the port of Duisburg-Ruhrort between Duisburg-Beeckerwerth and Duisburg-Baerl on the route of the Oberhausen–Moers railway in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Construction of the bridge began in March 1910. It was opened for freight traffic on 1 October 1912. Passenger services over the bridge started in 1929. At the end of the Second World War, the bridge was blown up by retreating German troops. It was rebuilt with the help of British pioneers as early as 1945 in its old form with its characteristic truss construction and opened to traffic on 26 February 1946. Since 1998, only a single track of the two tracks on the bridge has been used, the other track has been closed between Baerl and Beeckerwerth and is partially dismantled. Intensive building work began in May 2012 on the bridge to restore two-track operation on the bridge, which was completed in early 2013.

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