page_title: Bridges of Lyon
section_title: Perrache Viaduct (1856)
hierarchical_section_title: Bridges of Lyon / The Rhône / Perrache Viaduct (1856)
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Ponts de Lyon – Viaduc SNCF (Perrache) en aval du pont Gallieni
context_page_description: This is a list of bridges in the French city of Lyon on the Rhône and Saône rivers, ordered from upstream to downstream portions of the river.
context_section_description: This railway bridge was built between 1852 and 1856 to link the Gare de Lyon-Perrache and the Gare des Brotteaux. It is also referred to as the bridge of the Mediterranean 'because it is part of the artery "imperial" of Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM).
  It was first built on two channels at the same time as the tunnel is drilled Saint Irenaeus to link the Perrache train station in station Vaise, and beyond to Paris-Gare de Lyon.
  Its cast iron arches made Givors are based on batteries sitting on piles under the old techniques, but renewed and strengthened several times, especially when doubling its steel in 1926. It was only slightly damaged in 1944, first on 26 May by an Allied bomb, then by German artificers.
  In the early days of the Liberation, the Americans filled in tracks remaining in place to move convoys heavy vehicles onto the deck with ramps installed at the station in Perrache.
caption: Viaduct Perrache in 2008
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