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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: 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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The viaduct is 498.8 metres (1,636 ft) long and at its highest is 200 metres (660 ft) above the Mala Rijeka River. It is also the longest bridge on the Belgrade–Bar railway. [2] When constructed it was the highest railway bridge in the world, surpassing the record height previously held by the Fades viaduct in France.
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