New Xiuguluan River Bridge, Railway bridge in Yuli Township, Taiwan.
The New Xiuguluan River Bridge (新秀姑巒溪橋) is a 580-metre double-track railway bridge on the Taitung Line, linking Yuli Station in Yuli Township with Dongli Station in Fuli Township. It is a simple-span girder bridge on single-column T-shaped concrete piers, built by the hoisting method, with traditional ballasted track on the deck. In the photograph the pale grey concrete deck runs as a straight horizontal band on evenly spaced piers, with raised parapets along both edges, in front of a green mountain above fields.
The bridge opened on March 30, 2007, as part of an eastern railway improvement project designed to straighten the rail line between Yuli and Dongli. This project helped modernize transportation in the region.
The bridge carries the name of the Xiuguluan River it crosses, and its south end runs directly into Dongli Station in Fuli Township. It replaced the older curved alignment through Antong, so trains between Yuli and Dongli now run straight across the river plain.
The bridge was temporarily closed following damage from the September 2022 earthquake and underwent repairs using an innovative lifting and sliding method. The restoration work was completed to safely restore rail service.
During the 2022 Taitung earthquake the bridge deck shifted 20 to 100 cm and about 40 catenary masts between poles 89/31 and 90/16 broke. Repairs used a lifting-and-lateral-shifting method for the first time on Taiwan's railways, cutting 100 days from the schedule and allowing the Yuli–Dongli–Fuli section to reopen on 28 December 2022.
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