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Train Bridge Arnhem, Netherlands
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This train bridge is the fifth bridge at this spot. The first was built in 1879 and had multiple arches and an extra butress in the river. On the 10th of May 1940 the bridge was blown up by the Dutch Forces to deny use of it to the invading German troops.
After the capitulation, on the 19th of November the Germans replaced the bridge with another one from Zaltbommel, but this one had only one track.
During the very start of Operation Market Garden on the 17th of September the bridge was blown up while the Airborne troops of Lt. Peter Barry's C Company were on the bridge and almost over the water. The German Sprengkommando had blown it up, with this act they almost sealed the fate of the troops north of the Rhine.
The Airbornes moved on and more fighting took place when the troops were held up under the little viaduct on the north side by some armoured vehicles.
During the retreat from Arnhem on Tuesday the 19th of September almost all of the remaining Airborne troops entered the relative safe zone of Oosterbeek by passing under the viaduct.
The viaduct on the north side still bears the scars of the fighting of the 17th. After the war steel was brought in from a famous bombed London bridge but again this one was replaced by the Dutch.
Reconstruction has taken place in the last years to give the Rhine more room, making the dyke shorter than it was back in 1944.
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