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Location and near.

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I put the location of the bridge in the article but where it's near is still there but it looks a little out of place. Maybe someone knows how to fix it. --Northernwolves 19:46, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Capacity

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How much weight can the viaduct hold?? Does anybody know the answer?

I remember reading that the load tests were done with a 75 ton locomotive and 15 ton rail cars, however I don't have a citation. Perhaps you can find the details and add it to the article. —RandallJones 19:50, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

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Catenary or Parabola???

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Several captions for the photo of this bridge in other articles refer to it as a catenary, not a parabola. I could not find any reference to this bridge being a catenary in this article, however. It does not make sense that this bridge would be a catenary, because it bears weight other than simply the arch form, for which a parabola is a stronger shape. Are these other captions incorrect? Or is this bridge just some kind of freak? Cajolingwilhelm 05:58, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A very good question. I was wondering the same myself. —bse3 (talk contribs count logs) 20:27, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It is a parabola. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.58.147.83 (talk) 20:08, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Revision

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The article seems to have been written by a person with a limited command of idiomatic English. It is possibly a translation by a non-native speaker. Revision/rewriting is necessary. Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 14:55, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced material

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Article has been tagged for needing sources long-term. Feel free to reinsert the below material with appropriate references. DonIago (talk) 13:11, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is it in use or not?

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The text is ambiguous. It says services stopped on a certain day, which begs the question of whether they stopped permanently from that date or temporarily? Is the bridge currently used? --Dweller (talk) 14:07, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

IIRC there was a line indicating that the bridge had been reopened, but there was no source provided, and given that the article's been tagged for that problem since 2012... DonIago (talk) 14:45, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It's in use. It was closed for a while in 2009 and subsequently operated with a reduced speed limit. I've seen a train crossing it more recently. French railways (SNCF) website will sell you a ticket with no need to change from Béziers to Neussargues if you search for reservations. However, how you make that a valid reference I'm not sure. See also, if you read French, the Viaduc de Garabit article on the French Wikipedia. Emeraude (talk) 08:20, 21 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

HighestBridges.com

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I have removed the reference to HighestBridges.com because it may actually be referencing back to Wikipedia. As it says on the site: "Some portions © WikiMedia Foundation (Templates from Wikipedia) - Please refer to Wikipedia and MediaWiki sites for more information on copyright of these works." It does seem to have been factually correct, however.--ServeDotty (talk) 10:56, 17 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Was Eiffel indeed the architect? See common confusion with Eiffel Tower.

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The Eiffel Tower was not, and hardly anyone would know that unless they read up carefully. Arminden (talk) 11:53, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]