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Beach Bridge, or Beach Drawbridge, is a railroad swing bridge over Beach Thorofare Waterway in Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States just west of the Atlantic City Rail Terminal.^[1] It carries the New Jersey Transit Rail Operations (NJT) Atlantic City Line at milepoint mile 68.9 and is parallel to the Atlantic City Expressway. Built in 1922, the swing bridge was rehabilitated in 1988 and 2004. Operation of bridge openings for maritime traffic is provided by the Title 33 of the Code of Federal Regulations.^[3]

An earlier bridge at the location had been the site of the 1906 Atlantic City train wreck.

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^ ^a ^b "Beach Drawbridge". New Jersey Transit. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
^ "NJT - Beach Bridge". Bridgehunter. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
^ Title 33: Navigation and Navigable Waters PART 117—DRAWBRIDGE OPERATION REGULATIONS Subpart B—Specific Requirements, New Jersey, 20 December, 2016

NJ Transit Rail Operations
Hoboken Division	Bergen County Line Main Line Meadowlands Rail Line Montclair-Boonton Line Morris & Essex Lines ( Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch) Pascack Valley Line Port Jervis Line
Newark Division	Atlantic City Line North Jersey Coast Line Northeast Corridor Line Princeton Branch Raritan Valley Line
Connections	Aldene Connection Harold Interlocking Lehigh Line Connection Kearny Connection Montclair Connection Port Morris Junction Secaucus Junction Waterfront Connection
Current rolling stock	EMD GP40PH-2 ALP-46 ALP-45DP PL42AC Comet coaches Comet V MultiLevel coaches Arrow multiple units
Bridges and tunnels	Beach Bridge Bergen Tunnels Brielle Draw Connecting Railway Bridge DB Draw Delair Bridge Dock Bridge East River Tunnels HX Draw Lower Hack Lift Lyndhurst Draw Morgan Draw Morrisville–Trenton Railroad Bridge Newark Drawbridge North River Tunnels Oceanport Draw Portal Bridge Rahway River Bridge Raritan Bay Drawbridge Raritan River Bridge Roseville Tunnel Shark River Draw Upper Hack Lift WR Draw
Stations and yards	List of stations Historic stations County Yard Morrisville Yard Sunnyside Yard
Proposed lines	Lackawanna Cut-Off Monmouth Ocean Middlesex Line West Trenton Line
Other topics	Access to the Region's Core Atlantic City Express Service Glassboro–Camden Line Gateway Program Mid-Line Loop Northern Branch Passaic–Bergen–Hudson Transit Sawtooth Bridges Train to the Game Former stations Proposed stations

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