1946–1963Marshal Tito Bridge
A Garlanded Steam Locomotive on the Rails of the Marshal Tito Bridge
A colour slide taken from the timber deck of the road bridge, where the rails are laid straight into the planking so that trains and road traffic share one crossing. A steam locomotive comes over the span dressed in garlands, a lettered board across its smokebox and steam blowing up through the trusses. The portal ahead of it carries the bridge's name for Marshal Tito, with a star set into the date above. Two men have stopped on the walkway to watch, one raising his arm, and white blocks stand among the trees on the bank beyond.
About this place
The Marshal Tito bridge carried road and rail traffic over the Danube between Novi Sad and Petrovaradin, on the crossing now occupied by the Varadin bridge. The first permanent bridge here, named for Prince Tomislav, was built between 1921 and 1928; Yugoslav forces mined it in 1941, the German occupiers rebuilt it, and it was destroyed again during their retreat in 1944. The replacement went up quickly after the war, at first with timber trestle approaches carried on wooden piles, and Josip Broz Tito opened it in January 1946, which is when it took his name. NATO aircraft destroyed the bridge on 1 April 1999, and the 304 metre Varadin bridge opened on the same crossing in September 2000.
On the card
19 [star] 45 / MOST / MARŠALA TITA
The bridge portal is lettered MOST MARŠALA TITA, the Marshal Tito Bridge, in Latin script, with the year 1945 above it and a five-pointed star set between the two pairs of digits.
- Date
- 1946–1963
- Coordinates
- 45.25463, 19.85729
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 671 × 979 px
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