Garabit

Garabit, a point on the railway from Marvejols (Lozère) to Neussargues, about 10 miles S. of St Flour, in the French department of Cantal, where the line crosses a gorge through which the waters of the Truyère run, 401 feet below the rails. The viaduct, the work of M. Eiffel, is built partly of girders and partly of masonry, and has a total length of 1852 feet 6 inches. Where it crosses the river it is supported by an arch, with a span of no less than 541 feet 4 inches. See Engineering (1885), and Eiffel, Le Viaduc de Garabit (1889).