Pont de Conduché

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The Pont de Conduché in the French department of Lot is a railway bridge over the Célé just before its confluence with the Lot .

location

The bridge crosses the border between the communes of Bouziès and Tour-de-Faure , which at this point is identical to the course of the Célé. Immediately southeast of the bridge is the 787 m long tunnel de Coudoulous , on the northeast side of which was the now abandoned Conduché station.

History and description

It is a 50 m long steel bridge in lattice girder construction , which carries a single regular-gauge , non-electrified track . That belongs to the Cahors – Capdenac railway , which opened in 1886 and which lost passenger traffic in 1980 and freight traffic in 1989. Then it was still used by the Quercyrail museum railway .

Until 1944, two fortress-like towers on the northwestern bridgehead flanked the track. These were destroyed on April 7, 1944, when an ammonia- filled tank car of the German occupiers exploded in the tunnel de Coudoulous . Seven French railway workers were killed immediately, one of the two injured died the following day.

On December 28, 2003, the bridge was used for the last time by a Quercyrail train. The owner of the French rail network Réseau ferré de France (RFF) closed the Cahors – Capdenac line on June 9, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pont SNCF de Conduché at reperesdecrues.developpement-durable.gouv.fr, accessed on May 31, 2020
  2. ↑ Abandoned railway tunnels in France at verkehrsrelektiven.uue.org, accessed on May 31, 2020
  3. ↑ Hommage aux cheminots Morts pour la France at quercyrail.fr, accessed on May 31, 2020
  4. ↑ Quercyrail recherche les descendants des morts du tunnel de Coudoulous at medialot.fr, accessed on May 31, 2020
  5. ↑ Historique du train touristique "Quercyrail" at quercyrail.fr, accessed on June 2, 2020

Coordinates: 44 ° 28 ′ 34.7 "  N , 1 ° 39 ′ 10.7"  E