# Clover Bar Bridge

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{{Short description|Bridge in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada}}
{{Redirect|Beverly Bridge|the railroad bridge in the U.S. state of Washington|Beverly Railroad Bridge}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=June 2025}}
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{{Infobox bridge
| bridge_name = Clover Bar Bridge
| image = Clover Bar Bridges (railway and highway - HWY 16) - Edmonton - CA - May 2015.JPG
| caption = Clover Bar Bridge
| official_name = {{ubl | Clover Bar Bridge | Beverly Bridge}}
| carries = [Alberta Highway 16](/source/Alberta_Highway_16) ([Trans-Canada Highway](/source/Trans-Canada_Highway))
| crosses = [North Saskatchewan River](/source/North_Saskatchewan_River)
| locale = [Edmonton](/source/Edmonton), Alberta, Canada
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| traffic = 61,402 (2024)<ref name="AAWDT Volume Data">{{cite web | title=AAWDT | website=Google Docs | url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_W1_jGlAwSFDgRQmvakx4wJ8sive8sjZJFwtCyvS_3U/edit#gid=0 | access-date=August 8, 2024}}</ref>
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| complete = {{ubl | North span: 1953 | South span: 1972}}
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| coordinates = {{coord|53|34|17|N|113|22|21|W|region:CA-AB_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
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'''Clover Bar Bridge''' and '''Beverly Bridge''' are a pair of bridges that span the [North Saskatchewan River](/source/North_Saskatchewan_River) in the city of [Edmonton](/source/Edmonton), Alberta, Canada. The twin spans carry six lanes total of [Yellowhead Trail](/source/Yellowhead_Trail), the name given to [Alberta Highway 16](/source/Alberta_Highway_16) within Edmonton city limits.

Clover Bar Bridge, the original [truss span](/source/truss_bridge), was completed in the summer of 1953 and connected [Beverly](/source/Beverly%2C_Alberta) with mostly rural [Strathcona County](/source/Strathcona_County). Beverly was amalgamated with the City of Edmonton eight years later. Once the original span could no longer handle traffic volume, a steel [girder bridge](/source/girder_bridge) was built just to the south to carry eastbound traffic. This bridge, completed in 1972, is called the Beverly Bridge.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=0dceaf28-8c90-4588-b603-3de6b06ccc01 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119021856/http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=0dceaf28-8c90-4588-b603-3de6b06ccc01 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 19, 2013 |title=Aug. 18, 1953: Premier Manning first to drive of Clover Bar Bridge |work=Edmonton Journal |publisher=Postmedia Network |date=August 18, 2012 |accessdate=November 27, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rewedmonton.ca/content_view_rew?CONTENT_ID=2384 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115143234/http://www.rewedmonton.ca/content_view_rew?CONTENT_ID=2384 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 15, 2013 |title=When Beverly stepped into the big time |author=Herzog, Lawrence |publisher=Real Estate Weekly |date=November 13, 2008 |accessdate=November 27, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/namingedmontonfr00aubr |url-access=registration |quote=Beverly Bridge edmonton. |last=Aubrey |first=Merrily K. |title=Naming Edmonton: from Ada to Zoie |year=2004 |publisher=University of Alberta Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/namingedmontonfr00aubr/page/22 22] |isbn=0-88864-423-X}}</ref>

The Clover Bar Railway Bridge is just to the north of the original span. This {{convert|504|m|ft|adj=mid|-long}} and {{convert|42|m|ft|adj=mid|-high}} bridge was built in 1907–1908 as an iron and concrete truss by the [Grand Trunk Pacific Railway](/source/Grand_Trunk_Pacific_Railway) company and is still in use, carrying [Canadian National Railway](/source/Canadian_National_Railway)'s main line.<ref name="ALRB-FortJunction">{{cite web|url=http://www.forthjunction.com/railway-bridges-alberta.htm|title=Alberta's largest railway bridges|publisher=Forth Junction Project|language=English|accessdate=11 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711020530/http://www.forthjunction.com/railway-bridges-alberta.htm|archive-date=11 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [List of crossings of the North Saskatchewan River](/source/List_of_crossings_of_the_North_Saskatchewan_River)
* [List of bridges in Canada](/source/List_of_bridges_in_Canada)

==References==
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{{s-aft|after=Clover Bar [Railway](/source/Canadian_National_Railway) Bridge}}
{{s-bef|before=[Capilano Bridge](/source/Capilano_Bridge_(Edmonton))}}
{{s-ttl|title=Road bridge across the<br>North Saskatchewan River}}
{{s-aft|after=[Anthony Henday Drive](/source/Anthony_Henday_Drive) Highway Bridge}}
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Category:Bridges in Edmonton
Category:Bridges on the Trans-Canada Highway
Category:Road bridges in Alberta

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