deck bridge

British

noun

civil engineering a bridge with an upper horizontal beam that carries the roadway Compare through bridge

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Workers also will install seven girders to support an HOV ramp leading to and from a new pedestrian and cyclist deck bridge over the highway.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2023

It cost seventy-five thousand dollars, has five spans of one hundred and eighty-five feet each, and was built to replace a wooden deck bridge which was carried away by a freshet.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various

The bridge is a deck bridge, the railway being carried on top.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

The bridge over the Illinois River at La Salle, on the Illinois Central Railroad, shows the style of bridge technically called a "deck" bridge, in which the train is on the top.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various

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