The railway bridge in Szob is already the fourth bridge structure
at this place.
It is located on a very important railway trail, and that is why in
the period of its construction it was one of the biggest railway
bridges of the Carpathian Basin. The railway section between Vác ad
Nána including the bridge was opened on the 16th December 1850. At
this time, a wooden bridge was built over the Ipel. This wooden
bridge was exchanged for an iron construction in 1859. The
lattice-bridge was finished on the 7th April 1859. In 1859, the
bridge was built double tracked, although the second track on the
Nána - Bratislava section was completed only between 1872 and 1885.
Thus, the double tracked railway bridge was completed 3 centuries
earlier than the actual second track of the railway line.
Finishing the First World War, the demarcation line and later the
state border was run along the river line. That is how the many
small bridges suddenly became border bridges. The bridge was blown
up in the Second World War.
After World War II, most bridges along the Trianon border section
were closed down, and isolated from transportation.
Sávoly Pál prepared the plans of the new bridge.
It is the interest of all the people on both sides of the
river, that the Ipel is not the end of the world, but a connecting
point as well as water giving life to the region.
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