Clover Bar Bridge

{{Short description|Bridge in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada}}

{{Redirect|Beverly Bridge|the railroad bridge in the U.S. state of Washington|Beverly Railroad Bridge}}

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| 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 (Trans-Canada Highway)

| crosses = North Saskatchewan River

| locale = Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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| complete = {{ubl | North span: 1953 | South span: 1972}}

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Clover Bar Bridge and Beverly Bridge are a pair of bridges that span the North Saskatchewan River in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The twin spans carry six lanes total of Yellowhead Trail, the name given to Alberta Highway 16 within Edmonton city limits.

Clover Bar Bridge, the original truss span, was completed in the summer of 1953 and connected Beverly with mostly rural 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 was built just to the south to carry eastbound traffic. This bridge, completed in 1972, is called the Beverly Bridge.{{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 }}{{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 }}{{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}}

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 company and is still in use, carrying Canadian National Railway's main line.{{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}}