Pont de Recouvrance
Coordinates: 48°23′04″N 4°29′48″W / 48.384381°N 4.496541°W
| Pont de Recouvrance | |
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 The Pont de Recouvrance from the Tour Tanguy |
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| Carries | Rue de Siam |
| Crosses | Penfeld River |
| Locale | Brest, Brittany, France |
| Design | Vertical-lift bridge |
| Material | Reinforced concrete, steel |
| Total length | 88m |
| Height | 70m |
| Construction begin | 1950 |
| Construction end | 1954 |
| Opened | 1954 |
| Coordinates | 48°23′03.7″N 04°29′47.3″W / 48.384361°N 4.496472°W |
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The pont de Recouvrance is a vertical-lift bridge in Brest, France, across the river Penfeld. Opened on 17 July 1954, it was the largest vertical-lift bridge in Europe until the opening of the Pont Gustave-Flaubert in 2008. It links the bottom of the rue de Siam to the quartier de Recouvrance, replacing a swing bridge (the pont National) destroyed by Allied bombardment in 1944.
Each pylon is 70m high and the 525-tonne moving cradle is 88m long.
The bridge was crossed by trolleybuses from its opening in 1954 until the closure of the Brest trolleybus system, in 1970.[1]
The moving cradle has been renewed in 2011 in order to allow the future tram line to cross the bridge.
[edit] References
- ^ Haseldine, Peter (July-August 2010). "Two French closures" (40th anniversaries of). Trolleybus Magazine issue 292, pp. 74–75. National Trolleybus Association (UK). ISSN 0266-7452.
- Le pont levant de Brest, brochure edited by La Télémécanique Électrique (1954 ?)
[edit] External links
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