Tongling Yangtze River Road-railway Bridge, Road-railway cable-stayed bridge in Anhui, China
The Tongling Yangtze River Road-railway Bridge is a cable-stayed truss bridge with a 1,290-meter main bridge and a 630-meter main span. Its two diamond-shaped reinforced concrete towers rise 212 meters, and the deck carries a six-lane expressway above and four railway tracks below.
Planning began in 2006, when Anhui Province and the Ministry of Railways included the bridge in the provincial railway plan. Construction started on 18 April 2010; the rail deck opened with the Hefei–Fuzhou high-speed railway on 28 June 2015, and the road deck followed on 27 January 2016. In 2022 the bridge was named among China's 100 Great Buildings of the New Era.
The bridge's name comes from Tongling, the city on its south bank; the northern end lies in Wuwei County. Its main span of 630 metres made it the world's longest road-rail cable-stayed span when built, surpassing the Tianxingzhou Yangtze bridge in Wuhan. In 2022 it was named one of China's "100 Great Buildings of the New Era".
The bridge is a road and rail crossing, not a pedestrian attraction: the upper deck is a six-lane expressway and stopping or parking on it is not allowed. Views of the 212-metre diamond-shaped pylons and the 630-metre main span come from the banks of the Yangtze near the Caoggang waterway between Wuwei and Yi'an District, or from the approach roads.
The bridge carries both car traffic and trains simultaneously, a technically complex solution that is uncommon at most locations. This dual function allows large volumes of people and goods to move across the same structure without separate routes.
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