Garabit Viaduct

Garabit Viaduct Viaduc de Garabit
Coordinates	44°58′31″N 3°10′39″E
Carries	Railway
Crosses	Truyère river
Characteristics
Material	Wrought iron
Total length	565 metres (1,854 ft)
Width	6 metres (20 ft)
Height	124 metres (407 ft)
Longest span	165 metres (541 ft)
History
Architect	Gustave Eiffel
Construction start	1882
Construction end	1884
Construction cost	3,100,000 francs
Opened	1885
Location

The Garabit Viaduct (French: Viaduc de Garabit) is a railway arch bridge spanning the Truyère river, near Ruynes-en-Margeride, Cantal, France, in the mountainous Massif Central region.

The bridge was built between 1882 and 1884 by Gustave Eiffel, with structural engineering by Maurice Koechlin, and was opened in 1885. It is 565 m (1,854 ft) in length and has a principal arch with a span of 165 m (541 ft).

In movies

In 1976, it was used to represent the fictional crumbling "Cassandra Crossing" bridge in the movie The Cassandra Crossing, which collapses.

Here seen with a train.

References

• Billington, David P. (1983). The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engineering. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-02393-9.
• Harvie, David I. (2006). Eiffel: The Genius Who Reinvented Himself. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton. ISBN 0-7509-3309-7.
• Loyrette, Henri (1985). Gustave Eiffel. New York: Rizzoli. ISBN 0-8478-0631-6.

Other websites

• Garabit Viaduct at Structurae
• Garabit Viaduct on bridge-info.org
• PBS Building Big series databank entry for Garabit Viaduct