Garabit Viaduct
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Two-hinged arch bridge
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| Function / usage: |
Railroad (railway) bridge
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| Other name(s): | Viaduc de Garabit |
| Built: | 1881 - 1884 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Loubaresse, Cantal (15), Auvergne, France, Europe Ruynes-en-Margeride, Cantal (15), Auvergne, France, Europe |
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| Crosses |
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| Part of: |
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| Next to |
Garabit Bridge
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| Near |
Bridge over the Truyere at Garabit (1993)
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| Coordinates: | 44° 58' 32.00" N 3° 10' 38.00" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 165 m | |
| rise | 52 m | |
| height | 122 m | |
| total length | 564.69 m | |
| weight | 3 249 t | |
| weight | 3 249 t | |
| pier height | 80 m | |
| northern approach | total length | 45.91 m |
| southern approach | length | 70.09 m |
| main bridge | ||
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| length | 447.82 m | |
Quantities
| volume of masonry | 18 647 m3 | |
| weight of metal used | 3 326.414 t |
Materials
| piers |
wrought iron
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| arch |
wrought iron
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| truss |
wrought iron
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Chronology
| 14 June 1879 | The project receives approval. |
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| 26 April 1884 | Arch is joined. |
| 9 August 1888 - 13 August 1888 | Load tests. |
Relevant Web Sites
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archINFORM: Garabit Viaduct
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Broer.no Garabit Viaduct
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Garabit.com
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HighestBridges.com: Garabit Viaduct
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J. Navarre: Viaduc de Garabit
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PBS: Building Big - Garabit Viaduct
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Planète TP: Le viaduc de Garabit
Relevant Publications
- D'une rive à l'autre / Brücken dieser Welt (1)(television documentary)
- Les viaducs de fer, in "Viaduc Magazine", 2003, n. 1
- Le cinquantenaire du viaduc de Garabit, in "Ossature métallique", June 1938 v. 7
- Gustave Alexandre Eiffel, teNeues, Düsseldorf (Germany), ISBN 3823855409, 2003; pp. 44-51
- Great Buildings of the World: Bridges, Paul Hamlyn, New York (USA), 1969; pp. 98-109
- Viaducs d'Auvergne monuments du chemin de fer, ISBN 2905554061, 1992
- The Tower and the Bridge, Princeton University Press, Princeton (USA), ISBN 069102393X, 1983; pp. 67-71
- Le Patrimoine de la SNCF et des chemins de fer français (2 Tomes), Flohic Editions, Paris (France), ISBN 2842340698, 1999; pp. 135
- Patrimoine ferroviaire, Editions Scala, Paris (France), ISBN 2866563948, 2007; pp. 40-51
- L'architecture et les ingénieurs, Moniteur, Paris (France), ISBN 2281190994, 1997; pp. 103
- Bridges, Black Dog & Leventhal, New York (USA), ISBN 1884822754, 1997; pp. 56-57
- Brücken, Könemann, Cologne (Germany), ISBN 3829004095, 1998; pp. 56-57
- Les ponts, Könemann, Cologne (Germany), ISBN 3829004109; pp. 56-57
- Ponts de France, Presses Ponts et chaussées, Paris (France), ISBN 2859780300, 1984; pp. 26, 144
- L'architecture du fer, Champ Vallon, Seyssel (France), ISBN 2903528713, 322; pp. 110-111
- Gustave Eiffel, Editions Hazan, Paris (France), 1984; pp. 56-62
- Les ponts modernes - 18e et 19e siècles (1st edition), Picard Editeur, Paris (France), ISBN 2708404016, 1990; pp. 214-217
- Gustave Eiffel (2nd edition), Institute, Paris (France), ISBN 2907904000, 1989; pp. 55-61
- The extraordinary life and work of Monsieur Gustave Eiffel, the engineer who built the Statue of Liberty, the Porto Bridge, the Nice Observatory, the Garabit Viaduct, the Panama Locks, the Eiffel Tower, etc. (1st edition), Editions Graphite, Paris (France), 1984
- Les plus beaux ponts de France, Bonneton, Paris (France), ISBN 2862532754, 2001; pp. 89
- L'art de l'ingénieur, Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France), ISBN 2858509115, 1997; pp. 203-204
- Les ponts monuments historiques, Editions Brissaud, Poitiers (France), ISBN 2903442819, 1988; pp. 112-113
- Ponts et viaducs au XIXème siècle, Poitiers (France), 1988; pp. 289-291
- Le Viaduc de Garabit, Editions La Vie du Rail, Paris (France), ISBN 2-915034-71-0, 2007
- Naissance d'un géant, La Vie du Rail, Paris (France), ISBN 2902808151, 1984
- Brücken am Weg, Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH, Berlin (Germany), ISBN 3433012997, 1997; pp. 86
- Maurice Koechlin, in "Deutsche Bauzeitung", April 2002, n. 4 v. 136
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0000027 |
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| Created: | 28/10/1998 |
| Last Updated: | 05/03/2013 |
