Yangtze River Bridge (Wuhan)

Yangtze River Bridge
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
	location

30.552222222222 114.28305555556Coordinates: 30 ° 33 ′ 8 ″ N , 114 ° 16 ′ 59 ″ E

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 .