Digoin canal bridge

About

The bridge-channel of Digoin is a bridge-channel that allows the lateral canal to the Loire to cross the Loire. It allows the Lateral Canal to connect a little further with the Centre Canal, at the Campionnet port in Digoin. It ends with a lock separated by a short crossing basin.

Only boats or pedestrians have access. It is one of the first large canal bridges in France, with 243 meters long. It was the engineer Pierre-Alexandre-Adolphe Jullien, then only 29 years old, who was the author, as well as that of the Guétin, under the direction of the chief engineer Jean Joseph Pierre Vigoureux.

Opened to navigation in 1838, at the same time as the canal, it was expanded in 1870 and was redesigned between 1890 and 1896 by the engineer Léonce-Abel Mazoyer as part of the Freycinet template of the canal. He was thus deepened by the elevation of his crown.