Pont basculant de la Seyne-sur-Mer

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The bascule bridge before its transformation into a lookout tower

The Pont basculant de la Seyne-sur-Mer is a former bascule bridge in La Seyne-sur-Mer in France. It originally served as a railway bridge . Today it is permanently open and serves as a lookout tower.

The bridge was commissioned from the Daydé company in 1913 ; Commissioning took place in 1920. From then on, the railway no longer had to drive through the city center to the shipyards . In 1986 the bridge was locked in the vertical position. The restoration began in 2007 and ended on June 26, 2009. Since then, the viewing platform can be reached at a height of 42 m using an elevator. On the first floor of the bridge there is an exhibition about how the bridge works.

Web links

Commons : Pont levant de La Seyne-sur-Mer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Histoire du pont transbordeur

Coordinates: 43 ° 6 ′ 9.4 "  N , 5 ° 52 ′ 59.3"  E