Argenteuil railway bridge

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Coordinates: 48 ° 56 ′ 36 ″  N , 2 ° 15 ′ 38 ″  E

Argenteuil railway bridge
Argenteuil railway bridge
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Argenteuil railway bridge (France)
Argenteuil railway bridge

The Argenteuil railway bridge stands between the bank zone belonging to the industrial port of Gennevilliers ( Hauts-de-Seine department ) and the short embankment leading to the Argenteuil train station ( Val-d'Oise department ). It bridges the Seine and the four-lane Quai de Bezons that follows its right bank .

It serves the J line of the Transilien network from Gare St. Lazare via Colombes , Argenteuil , Conflans-Sainte-Honorine to Mantes-la-Jolie as well as other rail traffic to the places north-west of Paris.

Today's railway bridge consists of two adjacent bridge structures, each with two tracks. The carriageway girders of both bridges rest on four concrete river pillars with clear widths of 30 + 40 + 40 + 40 + 30 m and the abutments on both sides of the river and on both sides of the road. The newer bridge has deck girders made of several solid steel girders , the older one consists of a steel framework construction .

About 500 m downstream is the Pont d'Argenteuil , for a long time the only road bridge over the Seine in Argenteuil.

history

Argenteuil railway bridge circa 1890

The railway bridge served the route from Gare St. Lazare via Asnières-sur-Seine to Argenteuil, which was opened in 1851, but initially ended at a temporary train station on the left bank of the Seine (in 1892 the line was extended to Mantes). The bridge was built between 1861 and 1862. In 1863 the usual stress tests were carried out.

The bridge was designed as a double-track lattice girder bridge without an upper cross brace, the five bridge fields of which had spans of 30 + 40 + 40 + 40 + 30 m.

The two continuous lattice girders were 3.4 m high; their lateral distance from one another was 8.8 m, measured from central axis to central axis of the girders. The superstructure was built in sections on the embankment on the right bank next to the bridge, provided with a front end and then pushed in from September 20 to December 21, 1862

The four river pillars each consisted of two cast iron pipes with a diameter of 3.6 m under water and 3.2 m above water, as well as a 0.45 m high connector. The pipes consisted of 1 m high rings that were screwed inside with flanges . During the construction of the bridge they served as caissons , with which they were lowered to the necessary foundation depth. Then they were completely filled with concrete. Apparently the black tubes of the pillars were then painted a light color in order to reduce their warming and thus expansion in sunlight. The pairs of columns were then connected and stiffened with wrought iron struts in the form of two St. Andrew's crosses .

Destroyed Argenteuil railway bridge

The bridge was destroyed by French troops in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 to stop the enemy armies from advancing on Paris, but rebuilt in the same way between 1871 and 1872.

This bridge became world famous through various Impressionist paintings, including The Argenteuil Railway Bridge by Claude Monet.

During the Second World War it was blown up again in June 1940. The parts that had fallen into the Seine could be lifted and reused. At the end of January 1942 the bridge was usable again. In August 1944 it was blown up again, this time by the German occupying forces.

In July 1949 a new building with steel trusses was opened, which was supplemented by the second bridge in 2006.

Web links

Commons : Argenteuil Railway Bridge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The information is based on Google Earth and Google Street View
  2. ^ La ligne de Paris à Mantes par Argenteuil on Manche-Océan, Mémoire du Rail
  3. ^ Martin, Léonard: Pont-treillis, à piles tubulaires, d'Argenteuil (sur la Seine) . In: Nouvelles annales de la construction: publication rapide et économique des documents les plus récents et les plus intéressants relatifs à la construction française et étrangère ... Volume 10, January 1864, col. 5–12 ( digitized on Gallica ).
  4. ^ Marcel Prade: Ponts & Viaducs au XIXe Siècle . Brissaud, Poitiers 1988. ISBN 2-902170-59-9 , p. 245
  5. ↑ Detailed descriptions of the process can be found at:
    * Schwabe: Lattice bridge with tubular piers over the Seine at Argenteuil on the railway from Paris to Dieppe via Pointoise. In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume 14, 1864, Column 581–586
    * Auguste Perdonnet: Traité élémentaire des chemins de fer . 3. Edition. tape 1 . Garnier Fréres, Paris 1865, p. 542–546 ( full text in Google Book Search). * Sketch of the caisson foundation (     digitized on Gallica ) * Sketch of the pressure chamber and the work room ( digitized on Gallica )

  6. ^ Photo of the railway bridge from Argenteuil to Manche-Océan, Mémoire du Rail
  7. ↑ Photo of the destroyed bridge on sdhaa.free.fr
  8. ↑ Sketch of the destroyed bridge ( digitized on Gallica )
  9. ↑ Faivre: Viaduc d'Argenteuil avec poutres en treillis de fer et pile tubulaire en fonte . In: Portefeuille des conducteurs des ponts et chaussées et des garde-mines Douzième Série. - Numéros 1 et 2, Paris 1871–1872, p. 1 ( digitized on Gallica )
  10. ↑ Photo of the bridge from 1864 ( digitized on Gallica )