France - Viaduc de Garabit 加拉比高架橋

 

Stamp Issue : 1952-07-05 

Garabit Viaduct (Viaduc de Garabit) is a railroad arch bridge spanning the Truyère River near Ruynes en Margeride, Cantal, France, in the mountainous Massif Central region. The bridge was constructed between 1880 and 1884 by Gustave Eiffel, with structural engineering by Maurice Koechlin, and was opened in November 1885. It is 565 meters in length, 124 meters in height and has a principal arch of 165 meters, and took 38 tons of red paint to coat the entire bridge. For many years, the Garabit Viaduct remained the tallest bridge in the world.
Gustave Eiffel's tremendous success with the Garabit Viaduct, and later with the framework of the Statue of Liberty and Paris' Eiffel Tower, earned him the nickname "magician of iron."

加拉比高架橋是一座鐵路拱橋，橫跨法國中部高原山區，接近法國康塔爾呂訥昂馬熱里德的特呂耶爾河。橋梁建於1880年和1884年間，由古斯塔夫艾菲爾設計，莫里斯克什蘭承包結構工程，並於1885年11月完工啟用，全橋長565公尺，高124公尺，主拱有165公尺長，整個橋樑耗費38噸的紅色油漆塗層。多年來該加拉比高架橋仍是世界上最高的橋。
加拉比高架橋使古斯塔夫艾菲爾一舉成名，與稍後自由女神像和巴黎艾菲爾鐵塔的結構，更讓他博得「鐵魔術師」暱稱。