Bordeaux

[pontac]

2 minutes ago, 2012_Alaska_bound said:

we saw a Scenic river cruise boat sail out of Bordeaux that required a bridge opening

 

Do you man a Scenic Ocean cruise ship?

[2012_Alaska_bound]

3 minutes ago, pontac said:

 

Do you man a Scenic Ocean cruise ship?

 

No, it was a river cruise boat. There was a side channel it was docked in. We weren't sure if they were there for repairs/updates or what, because we only saw crew onboard. There is a lock they go through at the bridge. As I mentioned, the bridge was not above the water like a normal bridge you would drive over, just at regular land level.

Edited April 6, 2023 by 2012_Alaska_bound
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[2012_Alaska_bound]

24 minutes ago, 2012_Alaska_bound said:

There was a side channel it was docked in. We weren't sure if they were there for repairs/updates or what, because we only saw crew onboard. There is a lock they go through at the bridge. As I mentioned, the bridge was not above the water like a normal bridge you would drive over, just at regular land level.

 

Here are the pictures my friend took of the bridge opening in Bordeaux.

1. Regular street view
2. Scenic Diamond river boat waiting to go through the lock and bridge
3. Road blocked with straggler still on it

4. Bridge is lifting

5. Completely lifted and ready to rotate

6. Bridge in rotated position and the Diamond has sailed through

 

 

 

 

[pontac]

The lifting bridge has a lot of clearance when not raised, is easily passed by a river boat which is constrained by much older bridges. I wonder what rivers it cruises?

 

Not the Garonne/Gironde/Dordogne obviously because the 'Napoleon' bridge has to be passed to go inland, and river boats wait for low tide

[Canal archive]

It looks like the bridge from the inner dock  just off the river, the bridge for this when engaged first completely lifts by a few feet then swivels across thus opening to the dock. It’s nothing to do with the Jacques Chabin-Delmas vertical lift bridge or the Napoleon Bridge I suppose because it’s not significant enough the other two do slightly overpower it.

[2012_Alaska_bound]

17 minutes ago, Canal archive said:

It looks like the bridge from the inner dock  just off the river, the bridge for this when engaged first completely lifts by a few feet then swivels across thus opening to the dock.

 

Exactly right!

 

@pontac Scenic Diamond does indeed do the Garonne, Gironde, Dordogne route.

Here is the description

https://www.scenicusa.com/our-ships/our-space-ships/scenic-diamond---sapphire

[pontac]

2 hours ago, 2012_Alaska_bound said:

Exactly right!

 

@pontac Scenic Diamond does indeed do the Garonne, Gironde, Dordogne route.

 

Apologies - I thought - with the pix and related discussion, you were talking about the new lifting bridge.

 

Re Scenic Diamond - I was on it in August, as per my sig and trip report

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