The Séjourné bridge (also called the Fontpédrouse bridge) is a railway viaduct allowing the Cerdagne line to cross the Têt river in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales in the Occitania region (Pyrenees, France).
It also spans national road 116. It was designed by Paul Séjourné, Bridges and Roads engineer.
Its construction began in 1906 and was completed in 1908. As part of the Villefranche-de-Conflent – Mont-Louis section of the Cerdagne Yellow Train line (first section to have been built), it was inaugurated at the same time as the path iron on July 18, 1910.
It was registered as a Historic Monument on December 30, 1994.
It is a two-story bridge with a length of 236.70 m separated by an intermediate deck.
The central part, which spans the torrent, is framed by two square piers decorated at the top with battlements. On the lower level it has a large pointed arch, with an opening of 30 m and a height above the torrent of 35 m. This arch, whose keystone touches the apron separating the two floors, carries, on either side of its keystone, two secondary arches also supporting this intermediate apron.
On this first floor stand four arches pierced with elegations, supporting the railway deck and resting on the two large square piers framing the main span, as well as on three piers rising above the ogival arch of the lower floor.
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