Yangtze River Bridge (Wuhan)
Coordinates: 30 ° 33 ′ 8 ″ N , 114 ° 16 ′ 59 ″ E
Yangtze River Bridge | ||
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use | Railway u. Road bridge | |
Crossing of | Yangtze River | |
place | Wuhan , Hubei , China | |
construction | Truss bridge , double deck bridge | |
overall length | 1670 m | |
width | 22.5 m | |
Number of openings | nine | |
Longest span | 128 m | |
start of building | 1955 | |
opening | October 15, 1957 | |
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The Yangtze Bridge in Wuhan ( Chinese 武漢 長江 大橋 / 武汉 长江 大桥 , Pinyin Wǔhàn Chángjiāng Dàqiáo ) in the Hubei Province of the People's Republic of China is a double-deck road and rail bridge over the Yangtze .
The bridge, built between 1955 and 1957 with Soviet help, was the very first bridge over the Yangtze, apart from a few early rope or chain bridges for pedestrians across the narrow gorges on its upper reaches.
The bridge begins in the district of Hanyang north of the Yangtze not far from the television tower on the Gui Shan (turtle hill) with a foreshore bridge and ends with a short foreshore bridge on the southern side in the district of Wuchang on She Shan (snake hill) near the crane pagoda , which replaces the former pagoda that had to give way to the bridge.
The bridge has four lanes on the 22.5 m wide upper deck with sidewalks on both sides, and there are two railway tracks on the lower deck.
The bridge has nine steel lattice girders with spans of 128 m each. On the banks, portal-like towers mark the end of the river bridge and the transition to the high round arches of the approach bridges .
It survived the 2008 Sichuan earthquake unscathed.
The Beijing - Guangzhou railway ran over the Yangtze Bridge, until the high-speed line was opened at the end of 2012 , which crosses the Yangtze about 17 km downstream on a double-deck cable-stayed bridge, the Tianxingzhou Bridge , opened in 2009 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan. In: Back and forth across China
- ↑ First Bridge over the Yangtze River on ChinaHighlights.com
- ↑ Yellow Crane Tower on ChinaHighlights.com
- ↑ Yangtze River Bridge on TravelChinaGuide.com
- ↑ Photos in the 2012 China High Bridge Trip Photo Album