The
King Carol I Bridge (later renamed
Anghel Saligny Bridge) was built between 1890 and 1895 in Romania over the
DanubeThe Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg rivers which join at the German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows...
and
BorceaBorcea is a commune in Călăraşi County, Romania. It has the biggest population among all communes in the county, and it is situated on the Vest bank of the river Borcea .
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and when it was completed it then became the longest bridge in Europe and the third in the world.
The bridge has a length of 4,037 metres of which 1662 m over the Danube and 920 m over Borcea and was designed by Romanian engineer
Anghel SalignyAnghel Saligny was a Romanian engineer, most famous for designing the Feteşti-Cernavodă railway bridge over the Danube, the longest bridge in Europe at that time...
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The
King Carol I Bridge (later renamed
Anghel Saligny Bridge) was built between 1890 and 1895 in Romania over the
DanubeThe Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg rivers which join at the German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows...
and
BorceaBorcea is a commune in Călăraşi County, Romania. It has the biggest population among all communes in the county, and it is situated on the Vest bank of the river Borcea .
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and when it was completed it then became the longest bridge in Europe and the third in the world.
The bridge has a length of 4,037 metres of which 1662 m over the Danube and 920 m over Borcea and was designed by Romanian engineer
Anghel SalignyAnghel Saligny was a Romanian engineer, most famous for designing the Feteşti-Cernavodă railway bridge over the Danube, the longest bridge in Europe at that time...
. It is 30 metres above the water, allowing tall ships to pass under it. The bridge has four spans of 140 metres and one of 190 metres.
The two cities on the banks of the river which was built were
FeteştiFeteşti is a city and municipality in Ialomiţa County, Romania, with a population of 34,076. It is located in the Bărăgan plain, on the Borcea branch of the Danube. Fetesti has the second largest population in Ialomita, after Slobozia....
on the left side and
CernavodăCernavodă is a town in Constanţa County, Dobrogea, Romania with a population of 20,514.The town's name is derived from the Slavic černa voda , meaning "black water"...
on the right side. The bridge was used for almost a century, until it was replaced in 1987 with new bridge built next to it.
The bridge was inaugurated on 26 September 1895 and as a test on the opening, a convoy of 15
locomotiveA locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...
s sped at 85 km/h.
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