The finishing touches 
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| In 1983 the German
Railway decided to dismantle the old steel Wermacht bridge which
had been used for goods trains and replace it with a modern construction.. |
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The new goods
train bridge would be a similar design to the new 1964 passenger
bridge.
In October 1984 the second new bridge was officially opened. |
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| After almost
40 years the final obvious scars of the war had been removed.
The arches visible on the right of the photograph belong to the
original 1847 viaduct. |
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| The stream under
the viaduct (theJohannisbach) was dammed in 1982 to flood the
valley and create a 20 acre artificial lake for recreational
use. This lake submerged many of the old craters and buried for
all time any remaining unexploded bombs. The outline of several
craters can still be seen on the other side of the viaduct. |
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