The Wright's Railroad Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Newport, New Hampshire. Originally built in 1906 to carry the Boston and Maine Railroad across the Sugar River, it now carries the multi-use Sugar River Trail, which was built on the abandoned right-of-way.

The bridge is located about 1,200 feet west of the trail's intersection with Chandler Mill Road in western Newport. The bridge is a single-span Town double-lattice truss structure that has been reinforced by laminated arches. The bridge spans 122 feet, with 6 feet of overhang at each end, and rests on granite abutments. It is named for S. K. Wright, who sold this portion of the railroad right-of-way in 1871.

The bridge was built in 1906 by the Bridge and Building Department of the Boston and Maine Railroad. It replaced a wooden bridge built by the Sugar River Railroad in 1871 and 1872. The Sugar River line merged with the Concord and Claremont Railroad in 1873. The Concord and Claremont Railroad was especially well known for its use of the double Town/Pratt lattice truss. In 1915, there were 15 such bridges on the rail line.

The bridge is 123 feet 9 inches long with a clear span of 121 feet 9 inches. It has an overall width of 20 feet 6 inches with a railway width of 14 feet 9 inches and a maximum vertical clearance of 21 feet 3 inches. It is a double Town-Pratt lattice truss with laminated arches. This section of the rail line has been abandoned.

One of only eight remaining covered railroad bridges in the country. Wright's Bridge is structurally the most interesting of the four existing bridges built while Jonathan Parker Snow was a bridge engineer at the Boston & Maine Railroad. The use of the arch, which is original here, effected modifications to the lattice design. The snow was an important advocate for wooden bridges into the early twentieth century. It was used as a railroad bridge until 1977, when the line was abandoned.

Of the 400 covered bridges that once stood in the state of New Hampshire, as of 2019, only 54 remain.

The Wright's Railroad Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Located at:  N43 21.533   W72 15.549        -        WGCB #29-10-04 #2

Photographed in July of 2019

Photos by Millard Farmer