Can You Tell Me About Craigavon Bridge?

The Craigavon Bridge is a bridge over the River Foyle in Derry, Northern Ireland. It is situated further south than the Foyle Bridge and is the only double-decker road bridge in Europe.

It is the third bridge to be built in the same area, the first bridge being a wooden one, built in 1790. It was assembled in America and transported to Derry. It was then erected in the Bridge Street area, 90 metres north of the present bridge. In 1863, a steel bridge also known as the Carlisle Bridge was erected almost where Craigavon Bridge is today having replaced the old wooden structure.

The construction of the present bridge began in the late 1920's and was finished in 1933 though in later times modifications were made to the bridge in the form of replacing the lower deck railway line with a road.