The <b>Gesher Rosh Pinnah</b> (גֶּשֶׁר רֹאשׁ פִּנָּה) was a bridge by means of which the <i>Jaffa–Jerusalem Railway</i> (J&amp;J line) crossed the <i>Reḥov Rosh Pinnah</i> (רְחוֹב רֹאשׁ פִּנָּה). The bridge lay in a wide curve of the J&amp;J line, by which the railway line changed between its northwest-southeast course parallel to <i>Reḥov ha-Rakkevet</i> and its north-south course parallel to <i>Reḥov he-Kharash</i> (רְחוֹב הֶחָרָשׁ). The <i>Reḥov Rosh Pinnah</i> is a main street in the district of Naveh Sha'anan (נָוֶה שַׁאֲנָן), which runs in the southwest-northeast direction. In this photo from 1948 the view is directed southwestwards into <i>Reḥov Rosh Pinnah</i>, towered in a far distance by the spire of the Russian Orthodox St. Peter Church in the locality of Abu Kabir. The railway line was shut down in this section in 1970 and the bridge demolished in 1971, the railway causeway was removed, the area thus gained was later converted into the widened streets <i>Reḥov ha-Rakkevet</i> and <i>Reḥov he-Kharash</i> (which forms also the trunk road <i>Kvish 2</i>). The bridge lay in what is now the wide area of the intersection of <i>Reḥov ha-Rakkevet</i> (from the north-west), <i>Reḥov ha-Masger</i> (from the north), <i>Reḥov La Guardia</i> (from the east), <i>Reḥov he-Kharash</i> (from the south), <i>Reḥov Levandah</i> (from the south-southwest) and <i>Reḥov Rosh Pinnah</i> (from the south-west).
Willem van de Poll
1948
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