Viaduc ferroviaire de Mirville

About

The Mirville viaduct is a railway art work on the Paris-Saint-Lazare line in Le Havre, allowing the crossing of the Bolbec Ru Valley on the territory of the municipality of Mirville, in the Seine-Maritime department in Normandy. It is a curved viaduct, built of fitted red bricks, consisting of 48 arches over a length of 530 meters and a maximum height of 32 meters. It was built under the direction of Chief Engineer Joseph Locke, by contractors Mackensie and Brassey, on behalf of the Rouen au Havre Railway Company, which put it into service in 1847 when it opened to the operation of its homonymous railway line.

During the Franco-German war of 1870 and at the end of the Second World War, in 1944, he suffered relatively weak destruction, which interrupted railway traffic but allowed rapid rehabilitation after the end of the conflicts. Owned by Réseau ferré de France, it is mainly used for passenger and freight trains of the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF).