This is a list of vertical-lift bridges.
Australia
Abbotsford Bridge - road - Curlwaa, New South Wales and Yelta, Victoria- opened 1928 Batemans Bay Bridge – road – Batemans Bay, New South Wales – opened 1956, demolished 2022 Bridgewater Bridge – road & rail – Bridgewater, Tasmania – opened 1946, closed 2025 Harwood Bridge – road – Harwood Island, New South Wales – opened 1966 Hexham Bridge – road – Hexham, New South Wales – opened 1952 Hobart Bridge – road – Hobart, Tasmania – opened 1943, closed 1964 and demolished afterwards Paringa Bridge - road & rail - Paringa, South Australia - opened 1927 Ryde Bridge – road – Ryde, New South Wales – opened 1935, still used by road traffic but no longer lifts
Belgium BudabrugNL – road – zeekanaal Brussel-Schelde – opened 1955 EuropabrugNL – road – zeekanaal Brussel-Schelde – opened 1972 VerbrandebrugNL – road – zeekanaal Brussel-Schelde – opened 1968 HumbeekbrugNL – road – zeekanaal Brussel-Willebroek – opened 1968 BrielenbrugNL – road – zeekanaal Brussel-Schelde – opened 1968 RingbrugNL – road – zeekanaal Brussel-Willebroek – opened 1986 VredesbrugNL – road – zeekanaal Brussel-Schelde – opened 1952
Brazil Guaíba Bridge - road - Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul - opened 1958
Canada Bridges 5 (Glendale Avenue Bridge), 11 (Allanburg Bridge) and 21 (Clarence Street Bridge) on the Welland Canal, all built during the late 1920s as part of the Fourth Canal expansion project (1913–1932). In addition, there are also Bridges 13 (Main Street Bridge) and 17 (Dain City Railway Bridge) on the Welland Recreational Waterway (a former channel of the Welland Canal). However, these bridges have not been operational since 1973. Bridges 13 has had its counterweights removed while the machinery for Bridge 17 has been dismantled. Burlington Canal Lift Bridge, over the Burlington Canal, Burlington, Ontario. Information is available from Built 1962. Pretoria Bridge over the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Ontario Selkirk Lift Bridge over the Red River in Selkirk, Manitoba Victoria Bridge over the Saint Lawrence River connecting Saint-Lambert and Montreal, Quebec. Second Narrows Bridge Vancouver, BC over Burrard Inlet (rail bridge). Okanagan Lake Bridge in Kelowna, BC across Okanagan Lake – replaced in 2008. Shippagan Bridge Shippagan, NB over Shippagan Bay. Sir Ambrose Shea Bridge, Placentia, NL. Built 1961.
China
, across Hai River in Tianjin , across Ao River in Wenzhou (stopped lift function since 2016) , across Pearl River in Guangzhou
France
Pont Gustave-Flaubert – crossing the Seine at Rouen, this lift bridge is the highest vertical-lift bridge in Europe, allowing ships up to 55 m tall to pass under it. It is 670 m long, with a span of 116 metres. A striking design feature, the two road sections are mounted outside the central towers. The bridge was designed by François Gillard and Aymeric Zublena and opened to road traffic on 25 September 2008. It is named after the author Gustave Flaubert who was born in Rouen. Pont de Recouvrance – over the river Penfeld in Brest – road & tramwayToday's Railways Europe #1214, p15 Pont Levant de CriméeFR – over the Ourcq Canal; the last surviving vertical-lift bridge in Paris The Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas, spanning the River Garonne in Bordeaux, was opened in March 2013. The central lift span is 117m long and can be lifted vertically up to 53m to let tall ships pass underneath. The bridge is 575m long with the central lift span weighing around 2,600 tonnes. Its width varies from 32 to 45m and it will be used by cars, trams, cyclists and pedestrians. It can handle 43,000 vehicles a day and will reduce traffic congestion in Bordeaux. Structurae gives a length of 110 m for the lift span, making it probably the longest vertical-lift span in Europe.
Germany
in Hamburg, from 1934, demolished in 2018 Karnin Lift Bridge, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , a pair of vertical-lift bridges in Hamburg, have a lift span 100 m long, one of the longest in Europe It's opened in a regular schedule every two hours.
India New Pamban Bridge – This railway bridge on Pamban channel opened in 2025, is located in the Indian state Tamil Nadu, and will connect mainland India with Rameshwaram town on Pamban Island. It spans a length of and includes a vertical lifting section. It is the first vertical lift sea bridge in all of South Asia.
Indonesia Ampera Bridge – an automobile lift bridge located in Palembang that cross the Musi River. This bridge is still used by road vehicles but since 1970 never lift its road deck again. Eventually its counterweights removed in 1990.
Italy
Ponte Due GiugnoES – road – Fiumicino, Rome– rebuilt in 1945
Japan Chikugo River Lift Bridge – connecting Ōkawa, Fukuoka and Saga, Saga. Constructed as a railway bridge in 1935, it is 507 m long, with a central span 24 m long that weighs 48 t and rises 23 m. The railway closed in 1987, but the bridge reopened to pedestrians in 1996 and was designated an important cultural property in 2003.Nihon Keizai Shimbun Evening edition 8 December 2008 p.1
The Netherlands
Botlek BridgeNL – in Rotterdam Rotterdam - De Hef (The Lift), designed by Pieter Joosting, opened October 31, 1927 Gouwe – three identical lift bridges crossing the Gouwe river at Alphen aan den Rijn, Boskoop and Waddinxveen, built in 1930.
Romania/Bulgaria Danube Bridge, connecting both countries over Danube, between Giurgiu and Russe. Opened on 20 June 1954, the bridge is 2,223.52 m (7,295.0 ft) long and has a central lift-bridge (85 m) to allow the free-passing oversized boats passage.
Russia Finland Railway Bridge, in Saint-Petersburg , in Rostov-on-Don Reichsbahnbrücke in Kaliningrad
Sweden Train bridge in Södertälje, southwest of Stockholm. Hisingsbron in Gothenburg, Västra Götaland.
Ukraine Bridge over the mouth of Dniester in Zatoka, built in 1953–1955. The , over the Dnieper River in Kremenchuk, built in 1949
United Kingdom Leamington Lift Bridge – a pedestrian bridge in Edinburgh crossing the Union Canal. Built in 1906. Kingsferry Bridge – a road/rail bridge built in Kent in 1960. Turnbridge Lift Bridge – highly unusual road bridge at Turnbridge in Huddersfield that crosses the Huddersfield Broad Canal. Salford Quays lift bridge – carries pedestrians across the Manchester Ship Canal. Tees Newport Bridge – 82m span, first major lift bridge in the UK, built in 1934, still used by road traffic but no longer lifts since 1990. Salford Centenary Bridge – road bridge across the Manchester Ship Canal, opened in December 1994. Deptford Creek Lifting Bridge – rail bridge, in regular use, but no longer lifts on London and Greenwich Railway. Poole Town Bridge - road/pedestrian bridge built in 1927.
United States Alabama Naheola Bridge – Built in 1934, a steel lift bridge spanning the Tombigbee River between Choctaw and Marengo counties, notable for rail and automotive traffic sharing the same surface until its closure to automotive traffic in 2001.
Arkansas St. Francis River Bridge (Lake City, Arkansas) – Built in 1934, demolished except for vertical-lift span. Yancopin Bridge – A former railroad bridge over the Arkansas River converted to a rail trail. Built in 1903, bridge contains both a lift and a swing span; river channel under lift span now high and dry due to diversion of water through the Arkansas Post Canal.
California
Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge – Roadway bridge and directly adjacent Henry Ford Bridge (railroad bridge), at the Port of Los Angeles. Fruitvale Bridge – A vertical-lift Warren through truss railroad bridge between Oakland and Alameda, unused since 2000. Helen Madere Memorial Bridge, called the "Rio Vista bridge" locally, which carries SR12 across the Sacramento River in Rio Vista.
Mare Island Causeway Bridge – Built in 1934, carries California State Route 37 over the Napa River in Vallejo. Mossdale Railroad Bridge – Originally built swing bridge in 1869 as the first bridge to span the San Joaquin River as well as the final link in the First Transcontinental Railroad, it was rebuilt as a Warren through truss lift bridge in 1942. It is at Lathrop.
Napa River Railroad Lift Bridge – Vallejo. Tower Bridge – A four-lane bridge over the Sacramento River between Sacramento and West Sacramento.
Connecticut Thames River Bridge (Amtrak) – Two-track rail bridge in New London, carrying Amtrak's Northeast Corridor over the Thames River. Built in 1919, a new vertical lift span was erected in place of the original bascule span in 2008.
Delaware Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Lift Bridge – A single-track railroad bridge over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal that was built in 1966 for the Pennsylvania Railroad and replaced an earlier structure when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers widened the canal in the mid-1960s. It is the only bridge of its type along the canal, with earlier highway lift or swing bridges being replaced by high-level crossings.
Florida
Main Street Bridge – A four-lane bridge over the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville.
Georgia Sidney Lanier Bridge – Carried US 17 over the Brunswick River in Brunswick, built 1956, replaced 2003.
Illinois Bridge 710 – A single-track railroad bridge over the Calumet River in Chicago that served U.S. Steel's South Works. Formerly owned by EJ&E and now owned by Canadian National since their purchase of EJ&E. Canal Street railroad bridge – Over the South Branch of the Chicago River in Chicago, built 1914. Florence Bridge – Carries Illinois Route 100 and Illinois Route 106 over the Illinois River just east of Florence. Joe Page Bridge – Along the Great River Road and Illinois Route 100, connecting Greene and Calhoun counties over the Illinois River at Hardin, with a lift span of . Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, Bridge No. 6 – Together with the adjacent Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway bridge, once carried eight tracks across the Calumet River in Chicago; two tracks of the latter remain in service. Ottawa Rail Bridge – Carries Illinois Railway over the Illinois River at Ottawa, built 1898. Shippingsport Bridge – Carried Illinois Route 351 over the Illinois River between LaSalle and Oglesby, built 1929, replaced 2003. Torrence Avenue and four railroad bridges across the Calumet River shipping channel in Chicago.
Kentucky Fourteenth Street Bridge (Ohio River) – A single-track railroad bridge over the Ohio River at its widest point, Louisville.
Louisiana Claiborne Avenue Bridge – A four-lane bridge carrying LA 39 over the Industrial Canal in New Orleans. Danziger Bridge – The world's widest vertical-lift movable bridge, at seven lanes, over the Industrial Canal in New Orleans. White Kitchen (West Pearl River) Bridge - Built in 1925, carries U.S. Highway 90 traffic over the West Pearl River toward the Louisiana–Mississippi state line.
Maine and New Hampshire Carlton Bridge – Road and single-track rail bridge in Bath, Maine, built in 1927, repaired 1976. Road was bypassed in 2000 with new Route 1 bridge, now only used by the Rockland Branch railroad. Crosses the Kennebec River near Bath Iron Works. Sarah Mildred Long Bridge and Memorial Bridge – Two lift bridges (out of 3 bridges) over the Piscataqua River between Kittery, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Massachusetts Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge – A single-track railroad bridge over the Cape Cod Canal in Bourne. Chelsea Street Bridge – A four-lane bridge over the Chelsea Creek, opened in 2012, between East Boston and Chelsea. Fore River Bridge – Replacement bridge carrying Route 3A over Fore River between Quincy and Weymouth, opened 2015.
Michigan Portage Lake Lift Bridge – A bridge between Hancock and Houghton. Sault Ste. Marie International Railroad Bridge – A bridge system with 9 camelback spans, one of which is a lift bridge.
Minnesota and Wisconsin
Aerial Lift Bridge – A roadway bridge in Duluth, Minnesota that began life as an aerial transfer or ferry bridge.