Dashengguan Yangtze River Bridge

Bridge in Nanjing, Jiangsu

31°57′35″N 118°37′51″E / 31.959833°N 118.630972°E / 31.959833; 118.630972Carries6 rail tracks:

Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu High-Speed Railway

Nanjing Metro Line S3CrossesYangtze RiverLocaleNanjing, JiangsuCharacteristicsDesignArch BridgeTotal length1,615 m (5,299 ft)Longest span336 m (1,102 ft) (x2)HistoryConstruction start2006 (2006)Construction cost$537 million USD^[1]Opened2011 (2011)Location Map

The Dashengguan Yangtze River Bridge (simplified Chinese: 大胜关长江大桥; traditional Chinese: 大勝關長江大橋; pinyin: Dàshèngguān Chángjiāng Dàqiáo; lit. 'pass of the great victory') crosses the Yangtze River in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Construction of the bridge started in 2006 and it was completed in 2010. The bridge has two main spans of 336 m (1,102 ft) it is one of the largest arch bridges in the world.^[2] It carries six tracks: two for the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway^[3] (opened on 30 June 2011), two for the Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu high-speed railway (opened on 22 January 2011) and two for line S3 of the Nanjing Metro (opened on 6 December 2017).

References

^ "Nanjing Dashengguan Yangtze River Bridge, Jiangsu Province - Railway Technology". Archived from the original on 2014-05-07. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
^ Dashengguan Bridge at Structurae
^ "Dashengguan Bridge - the Longest Span Arch Bridge for High-Speed Railway" (PDF). Bscw-appl.ethz.ch. Retrieved 2013-09-08.^{[permanent dead link]}