Arroyo del Valle Viaduct
Record: 1755 m
Height Record: 80 m
Main Span Record: 132 m
The Arroyo del Valle viaduct belongs to the high-speed railway line linking Madrid with Segovia and Valladolid (Spain). It is located in the northwest of the Community of Madrid (central Spain), between the municipalities of Soto del Real and Miraflores de la Sierra, and at the foot of the south face of the peak of La Najarra, belonging to the Sierra de Guadarrama.
This viaduct is the main viaduct of the entire Madrid-Valladolid high-speed railway line and the longest continuous-deck viaduct in Europe. It has a straight route and crosses a difference in level caused by the Valle stream, a tributary of the Manzanares River. It has a length of 1,755 m distributed in 27 spans, with spans of 66 m and a maximum pile height of 80 m. The central span crosses the stream that gives its name to the viaduct, has a span of 132 m and a deflection of 49 m, with a total arch weight of 2,500 tons.1 The Guadarrama high-speed railway tunnel begins at the farthest edge of Madrid, an important 28 km long tunnel that crosses the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range. Since December 22, 2007 this viaduct, next to the Madrid-Valladolid high-speed railway line, has been in use.
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