Tancarville Bridge

The Tancarville Bridge (Pont de Tancarville in French) is a suspension bridge that crosses the Seine River and connects Tancarville (Seine-Maritime) and Marais-Vernier (Eure), near Le Havre.

Tancarville Bridge
Coordinates	49°28′20″N 0°27′53″E / 49.4722°N 0.4647°E / 49.4722; 0.4647
Crosses	Seine River
Locale	Tancarville and Marais-Vernier, France
Official name	Pont de Tancarville
Characteristics
Design	Suspension bridge
Total length	1,420 metres (4,660 ft)
Width	12.5 metres (41 ft)
Longest span	608 metres (1,995 ft)
Clearance below	50.85 metres (166.8 ft)
History
Opened	1959
Statistics
Toll	€2.60–€6.60
Location

The bridge was completed in 1959 at a cost of 9 billion francs. In the 1990s it was realized that the cables had corroded and the shoulders were crumbling. Between 1996 and 1999, both the cables and shoulders were replaced.

A brand of clothes horse introduced in 1960 was named Tancarville for its resemblance to the new bridge; in France, especially the northwest, the name has become a genericised trademark for "clothes horse".^[1]

See also

• Pont de Normandie

References

1. • Tassel, Victor (21 January 2019). "Le «Tancarville» fait son grand retour". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 23 February 2022.
   • Avanzi, Mathieu [@MathieuAvanzi] (February 23, 2022). "Rappel 👇 #tancarville" (Tweet) (in French) – via Twitter.

External links

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tancarville Bridge.

• Website of Pont de Normandie and Pont de Tancarville (in French)
• Tancarville Bridge at Structurae

49°28′20″N 0°27′53″E / 49.47222°N 0.46472°E / 49.47222; 0.46472