Following yesterday’s post, in June 1937, before the arrival
of the Nationalist Army, the Battalion of Engineers of the Army of the North was
ordered to destroy all the means that would allow crossing the River Nervión, to
stop the advance of Franco’s troops.
In the early hours of June 17, a great explosion wounds the Puente
Bizkaia, whose crossbar falls in the waters of the estuary.
Its reconstruction will have to wait two more years. This
period of forced rest has been the only “vacation” of the Puente Bizkaia throughout
its existence of more than a century.
On August 5, 1939, the Bureau of Ports of the Public Works
Department of Vizcaya, issued Order No. 3880 approving the project to rebuild
the Puente Bizkaia.
The works go without major incidents, except for strong
winds suffered a few days before the end of the works, which did not cause
major incidents. Finally, on June 19, 1941, a little less than two years after
the beginning of the reconstruction, the service was reopened.
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