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as scrap metal). Over three weeks, experts used hydraulic jacks to rotate the 127-metre span, which weighs more than 1,000 tonnes, symbolically placing the retro truss parallel to the new bridge. Subsequently, a real miniature park and historical zone with steam locomotives, tanks and platforms was
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