Viaduc métro 8 de Charenton

About

The viaduct-metro de Charenton is a railway art work of the beam bridge type located in the French department of Val-de-Marne in the Île-de-France region. It connects the communes of Charenton-le-Pont and Maisons-Alfort by crossing the Marne, the A4 motorway and the departmental road 103. The viaduct was put into service in 1970 and is borrowed by the trains of the Paris metro line 8.

The total length of the work is 199 m. Composed of steel beams resting on concrete piles, it has the peculiarity of being on a continuous slope due to the elevation between the two banks of the Marne. It was first renovated in 2011.