The
Yiwan Railway Wanzhou Yangtze River Bridge is an
arch bridge
An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side. A viaduct ...
in
Wanzhou District
Wanzhou District () is Chongqing's second most populated urban core area on the upper reaches of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in China. It is currently governed as a district of Chongqing Municipality, bordering Sichuan to the northwest ...
,
Chongqing,
China.
The bridge was completed in 2005 and carries the
Yichang−Wanzhou Railway across the
Yangtze River
The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest list of rivers of Asia, river in Asia, the list of rivers by length, third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in th ...
. The bridge spans making it one of the
longest arch bridges in the world.
See also
*
List of longest arch bridge spans
*
Yangtze River bridges and tunnels
References
External links
* http://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=1125907
Bridges in Chongqing
Arch bridges in China
Bridges completed in 2005
Bridges over the Yangtze River
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