"كتيب تركيا الأوروبية (لندن: قسم الاستخبارات، الأميرالية؛ ١٩١٧)' [ظ‎‎١‎٥‎٩] (٣٤٨/٣٢٣)

298
RAILWAYS
Total distances
from Constantinople.
miles I
175^
The bridge commences from the 1. bank with six
|30-ft. and five 80-ft. spans of lattice girders, followed
by a short length of earth embankment. Then comes
i the bridge over the middle channel, 25 ft. high and
consisting of fifteen spans of 55-ft. lattice girders.
The piers consist of iron piping about 18 in. in diameter,
braced together with stays. Fifty yds. beyond is the
bridge over the western or main channel, formed of
three 150-ft. spans of box-girder formation 15 ft.
square, through which the train passes. The piers
are of masonry, and the rails are 30 ft. above the
summer height of the water. The bridge was bombed
by the R.N.A.S. in Dec. 1916 and Jan. 1917.
For 200 yds. above the bridge on the r. bank is a
retaining wall to check the rush of the current.
Kuleli Burgas Station (alt. 79 ft.). Junction with
the Demotika-Dedeagach-Salonica railway. The
station contains If mile of sidings. There are two
sidings of 400 yds. each, two of 600 yds. each, with
a big siding running westward for 900 yds. to a dead
end. Small restaurant. There are a turntable, two
watering-tanks, and a coal depot at this station. A
rough cart-track, passable for guns, leads from Kuleli
Burgas Station to the crest of the high spur W. of the
bridge. Along the flat ground on the 1. bank an
embankment 25 ft. high has been constructed as an
immediate approach to the bridge. The dead-end
siding accommodates 50 trucks which are kept here in
reserve.
There are only a few wooden huts and some cafes
near the station.
The village, a small place inhabited (1909) by Turks
and Bulgarians, is situated 1 mile to the W. under
a ruined tower on the hill-side.