Ponte de São João

The engineer Edgar Cardoso designed this railway bridge as the replacement for Eiffel's single-track Maria Pia, and construction started in 1984. It opened on 24 June 1991 and took over the Linha do Norte traffic that same day, and the older bridge upstream closed to rail traffic on that date. It is one of two Douro crossings in this list credited to Cardoso, the other being the Arrábida.

Structure Type

beam

Year Built

1991

Architect

Edgar Cardoso

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_de_S%C3%A3o_Jo%C3%A3o

Category: Culture & History

Tags: railway, linha do norte, edgar cardoso, beam

Coordinates: 41.1383996, -8.5962913

Part of The bridges over the Douro at Porto

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