Puente Transbordador Nicolás Avellaneda |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Av. Don Pedro de Mendoza
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Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
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only technical monument to visit from the outside
único monumento técnica para visitar desde el exterior
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Status from 01/2016
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out of service fuera de servicio |
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Homepage | www.buenosaires.gob.ar/areas/cultura/cpphc/sitios/detalle.php?id=11 |
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Description | The first Transporter Bridge was built near Bilbao in Spain and is still used today.
Worldwide less than twenty transporter bridges were built, of which 6 are currently in operation. - Puente Vizcaya - (Bilbao), Spain, 1893 - Pont Transbordeur de Rochefort- Martrou, France, 1900 - Newport Transporter Bridge - Newport, UK, 1906 - Schwebefähre Osten–Hemmoor - Osten, Germany, 1909 - Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge - Middlesbrough, UK, 1911 - Rendsburger Hochbrücke mit Schwebefähre - Rendsburg, Germany, 1913 2 Transporter Bridges can be seen out of operation and only as a technical monument and from the outside: - Puente Transbordador Nicolás Avellaneda - Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1914 - Warrington Transporter Bridge - Warrington, UK, 1916 Puente Nicolás Avellaneda or Transbordador del Riachuelo is a transporter bridge in Buenos Aires, Argentina, it was completed in 1914. The bridge was in use until 1960 and may be preserved as a historical monument in the future. |
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