Nevers Railway Bridge
Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 57 ″ N , 3 ° 9 ′ 8 ″ E
| Nevers Railway Bridge | ||
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| use | Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons-Lyon-Perrache railway line | |
| Crossing of | Loire | |
| place | Nevers | |
| construction | cast iron arch bridge | |
| overall length | 385 m | |
| width | 9.40 m | |
| Number of openings | seven | |
| Longest span | 42 m | |
| Arrow height | 4.55 m | |
| start of building | 1849 | |
| completion | 1850 | |
| planner | Boucaumont | |
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The railway bridge Nevers crosses the Loire just south of the station of Nevers in the department of Nièvre in the French region of Bourgogne Franche-Comté .
It is one of the oldest still existing cast iron railway bridges in France.
description
The double-track bridge is part of the Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons-Lyon-Perrache railway via Nevers to Lyon-Perrache , which is also used by trains between Paris and Clermont-Ferrand until Saint-Germain-des-Fossés . The TER Bourgogne trains also cross the bridge.
The bridge is a total of 385 m long and 9.40 m wide. In addition to a stone arch over the two-lane Quai des Éduens on the right bank of the river, it consists of seven segment arches with spans of 42 m and arrow heights of 4.55 m, which are supported on the stone abutments and pillars. Each arch is formed by seven or eight parallel, originally cast-iron girders on which vertical and diagonal profiles take on the elevation of the roadway girder. The tracks are 13.5 m above the low water of the Loire. 2500 tons of cast iron and 50 tons of wrought iron were used in the construction of the bridge .
The second arch from the north was destroyed by the French in World War II in 1940 and then rebuilt; In 1944 two arches were bombed. They were rebuilt after the war as steel arches with the same appearance, but now with eight arch girders instead of the previous seven girders.
history
The bridge was initially built as a single track between 1849 and 1850 for the first section from Nevers to Saincaize station by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans according to plans by Boucaumont; the second track was added soon afterwards. The cast iron parts were made in Émile Martin's foundry in nearby Fourchambault .
The Nevers railway bridge was built under the influence of Paulin Talabot , who wanted to extend his Alès - Nîmes - Beaucaire route across the Rhône to Tarascon and finally to Marseille . He had started planning the Tarascon – Beaucaire railway bridge , but was held up by financial problems related to the stock market crash in 1847 and the February 1848 Revolution , so that the Nevers railway bridge was the first of the two very similar looking bridges to be completed.
Web links
- Nevers Railway Bridge. In: Structurae
- Cast iron viaduct over the Loire near Nevers. : Allgemeine Bauzeitung , year 1856, p. 359 (online at ANNO ).
- Plan drawings, sheet 75 .: Allgemeine Bauzeitung , year 1856, p. 455 (online at ANNO ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Bernard Marrey: Les Ponts Modernes; 18 e –19 e siècles. Picard éditeur, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-7084-0401-6 , p. 156
- ↑ Jean Luc Flohic (Ed.): Le patrimoine de la SNCF et des chemins de fer français. Éditions Flohic, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-069-8 , p. 67
- ↑ Pont de la Loire ( Memento of the original of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Inventaires ferroviaires
- ↑ La ligne Clermont-Ferrand / Nevers / Paris ( Memento of the original of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Detailed description in Krach de 1847 in the French Wikipedia
