page_title: Main-Neckar Railway
section_title: Bridges
hierarchical_section_title: Main-Neckar Railway / History / Construction / Bridges
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture postcard ca. 1900, Ladenburg, Germany. Deutsch: Ansichtskarte aus Ladenburg um 1900.
context_page_description: The Main-Neckar Railway is a main line railway west of the Odenwald in the Upper Rhine Plain of Germany that connects Frankfurt am Main to Heidelberg via Darmstadt, Bensheim and Weinheim. It was opened in 1846 and is one of the oldest railways in Germany.
  The railway line is part of the networks served by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund and Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar.
context_section_description: Until the Main-Neckar Bridge in Frankfurt (at the site of today's Friedensbrücke) was completed on opened to traffic on 15 November 1848, rail services ran into the Mainspitze depot and reversed to the old Sachsenhausen station. After the completion of the bridge over the Main the line ended in Main-Neckar station. The original temporary wooden bridge at Ladenburg was replaced by a stone arch bridge in 1848.
caption: Neckar Bridge at Ladenburg 1900
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