Carries Rue de Siam Design Vertical-lift bridge Address 29200 Brest, France Height 70 m | Crosses Penfeld River Longest span 88 metres (289 ft) Opened 1954 Location Brest | |
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Locale Brest, Brittany, France Material Reinforced concrete, steel Architects Thomas Lavigne, Christophe Cheron Similar Penfeld, Tour Tanguy, Château de Brest, Pont National, Pont de l'Harteloire | ||
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 Rouen 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.
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Each pylon is 70m high, and the 525-tonne lift span is 88m long.
Brest la nouvelle trav e du pont de recouvrance
Trolley bus
The bridge was crossed by trolleybuses from its opening in 1954 until the closure of the Brest trolleybus system, in 1970.
Trams
The lift span was renovated in 2011 to allow the new tram line to cross the bridge. The tram line opened by July 2012.
References
Pont de Recouvrance Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA