The Grand Trunk Bridge is a Canadian steel

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railway bridge that spans the

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. It was built in 1908 as part of the

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project. The GTP was merged into the

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(CN) in 1920; as such, the structure is also referred to informally as the CN Railway Bridge. SASKATOON 1916

The bridge is the southernmost of the city's two rail bridges and is situated between the

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on the upstream (west) side and Diefenbaker Park on the downstream (east) side. CN placed a chain link fence on both sides of the bridge as a result of people trespassing on the walkways. Based upon anecdotal evidence – that is, visual inspection of city maps – it appears to have the longest span of any Saskatoon bridge. The 2012 southwest extension of the city's

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freeway included the Gordie Howe Bridge, built parallel to the Grand Trunk Bridge. In 2016, the city's original

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, opened in 1907, was disassembled to make way for a replacement bridge. As of that moment, the Grand Trunk Bridge became Saskatoon's oldest surviving bridge (it opened several months before the city's second rail bridge).

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