Features:

  • Product includes - The Lifting Bridge comes with 3 pieces; a bridge unit that can be moved up and down with a mechanical crank, and two access tracks.
  • Perfect for the creative toddler - Expand your budding train engineer's collection with a BRIO Lifting Bridge toy train accessory. It’s the perfect gift for the creative toddler - designed for ages 3 and up.
  • Compatibility - As your child develops, so can their railway play as the 33757 Lifting Bridge and its wooden tracks are compatible with all other BRIO railway toys.
  • Develops important skills - Playing with train sets helps children to understand and learn about their environment in a fun way.
  • Safe for your child - We conduct more than 1,000 safety tests a year to ensure that our products conform to all safety standards, and we take pride in developing toys that are completely safe for children to play with.
Great Addition

Works perfectly for our existing Brio tracks, which we funnily enough use for Thomas and Friends wooden trains. The draw bridge requires precise hand movements to roll up, which is great practice for my toddler.

Adding connections / tracks to pass a train under the Brio Lifting Bridge.

The bridge is a great product in usual high Brio build quality. The only thing I was missing are the connections and tracks to have trains go under the bridge too. I understand that this is supposed to be a bridge over water.... but still... how much more fun would it be having to lift the bridge when a train passes under the bridge... So I got my drill, saw and Dremel out and improvised connections and grooves for the wheels. Is it perfect? No. Does it increase the fun playing with it? YES!!! :) For those interested: 1) use the female connection from a normal track piece as a shape guide and draw the shape to cut on the underside of the bridge bottom part. Do this for both connection parts that you want to cut. 2) Drill the hole, using first small then larger drill bits. 3) Use saw to cut between the hole and the edge of the piece to finish the negative connection shape. 4) Then make the track grooves on top of the plate for the train wheels (trains will derail easily without them) with sanding paper folded over a wooden edge or similar. You don't need to make them as deep as on the standard tracks, slight grooves have a big effect and suffice to keep the train on track. Enjoy!

Quality work. 3 year old tested!

My little guy loves this brand train set. Great quality. The bridge and strong hold up after repeated abuse from a 3 year old.

Good quality wooden bridge for Brio or Thomas train sets

We've tried a few (cheaper) brand to extend our Thomas train set but most other options were not as good. This is our second Brio item and it seems as good as our first. I was a little bit concerned about the mechanism used to lift the bridge but it looks like it will last. My 3 yo didn't have any issue figuring out how to operate it which will also extend its life.

Perfect addition to train set

Got this for my son's birthday. He loves this bridge! He rarely brings the bridge up, but uses the safety gates all the time. The safety gates do pop off easily (been kicked by the dog a few times) but they pop right back on. Great product, very stable.

This is a well made addition to my sons awesome train set

This is a well made addition to my sons awesome train set. It is compatible with his tracks that are a mix of Thomas, Obrium and Brio pieces. We told him to be carfeul with the lifting mechanism and it has held up well.

Cute bridge, bit tricky to learn for a younger toddler

My son received this bridge a few months ago when he was almost three years old. It's cute, when the battery operated trains run around he needs to remember and run ahead to lift the red barrier gates, or we can direct him, "quick! lift the gates!" and he remembers and runs over quickly to lift the gates, it's fun. This little bridge comes with two ascending tracks. The bridge itself is 9" long without ascending track, with the ascending track on either side it would considered to be much longer. The main part of the bridge sits 3" high, the lifting tower with the red turning wheel is 6" high. It was a male connector on the lifting tower side and a female connector on the other, so the track is straight-through. How it works: The brige has two red cantilevered barrier gates that you lift with your fingers to let the pass over unobstructed. They hold in any position if you let go, so that's nice. The bridge is lifted by turning a little red wheel on the lifting tower that winches up a white string that is attached to the center of one side of the brige. It also holds in any position as you lift it up, but as you turn the wheel to winch it up, the bridge winches up and then drops an eensy bit, so it's a bit toddler-tricky to get used to (preschoolers would likely be ok with it, not tricky for grown ups). There's only an 1.5" of clearance between the base piece holds up the bridge and the red suspension bridge, and the base piece of wood isn't grooved in any way, so I don't know under what conditions Brio thinks the bridge would be lifted. My husband manages to run track underneath (it's a bit awkward and not that pretty), so that in order for a train to pass *under*, my son has to run ahead and lift the bridge, it doesn't look that great, but it does give an impetus to lift the bridge. The only improvement I would suggest to this bridge is to add connector and track grooves onto the the base piece so that you can run a track underneath -- that way the track user would have a need to lift the bridge itself. I'd say this bridge is appropriate for the early preschooler, ie. right around age 3 as knowing how to turn the little turn wheel is a bit tricky, and the user has to learn how the bridge holds as you winch it up. It's well made, Brio quality.

Great buy! Our 2.5 year old operated this!!

We bought this as a companion to the Brio travel train....our 2.5 year old grandson was able to immediately turn the knob and raise the bridge. He’s loved the idea of making the cars wait before rolling over the bridge. The Brio travel train rolls so easily over the tracks and he loved how fast it went over the bridge!!

Toddler approved!

Such a cute train set peice. Very sturdy and a good size. Only downside is that there are no openings on the bottom half to where you could add tracks and continue a trail underneath the bridge. No biggie though.

Great piece for our train set!

The bridge is very well finished and works great; you can use the little crank & string to lift it, or just lift it by hand (my 1.5yo prefers that). The two red barriers are fun to lift/drop and understand the concept. Great piece for our train set!

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