Nile Bridge

Meccano model of a lifting bridge at Assuit, in Egypt, forming part of the Nile barrage system, 300 miles downstream of the Aswan dam. The bridge provides a crossing and passing point for road and river traffic at a lock to one side of the dam.

It is a unique single bascule, counterbalanced by a wagon rolling on an elliptical curved track so as to maintain constant tension in the control cables.

The bridge was the subject of an article in the June 1938 Meccano Magazine.