No expense was spared in building the more than 46-kilometre-long railway line between the Dutch town of Lage Zwaluwe and Hertogenbosch. Thus, in the 1880s, the construction of a spacious railway bridge above the Bossche inundation field began.
The Estrée viaduct stretches 27 meters above Chaussée d'Alsemberg, an abandoned railway bridge over which no trains have passed for more than forty years.
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