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The Fades Viaduct is located close to Les Ancizes-Comps, in the Auvergne region, between the communes of Sauret-Besserve and Les Ancizes-Comps. It spans across the river Sioule. Its construction began on 28 October 1901. From 14 to 16 September 1909 it passed the performance tests, The Fades Viaduct has monumental piers of quarried granite.
Fades viaduct – The tallest traditional masonry piers ever built (92 m). Until the advent of concrete and the use of cast iron and then steel, bridges were made of masonry. Roman bridges were sturdy, semicircular, and rested on thick piers, with a width equal to about half the span of the vault .
Fades viaduct: Highest railway bridge in France Height : 132.5 m (435 ft) Piers height : 92.3 m (303 ft) Historic monument: 470 m (1,540 ft) Truss Warren type, steel and laminated iron deck, granite hollow piers
The Sioule (French pronunciation:; Occitan: Siula) is a 164-kilometre (102 mi) long river in central France, a left tributary of the river Allier. [1] Its source is near the village of Orcival, north of Mont-Dore, in the Massif Central.
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July 1 – Wiesen Viaduct on the Rhaetian Railway in Switzerland, designed by Henning Friedrich, opens. July 14 – Teatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro) opens. October 10 – Fades viaduct in France opens. October – United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Custom House (Spokane, Washington), designed under the supervision of James Knox Taylor ...
More than 150,000 spectators attended Oct. 12, 1922, dedication of bridge between downtown Akron and North Hill.
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