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World's Longest-Spanned Highway-Railway Dual-Use Cable-Stayed Bridge is Completed on Jan 21, 2017

Updated: 2020-01-21

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The Hutong Railway Yangtze River Bridge has the longest-span among the world's heavy haul highway-railway steel arch bridges. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

World's longest-spanned highway-railway dual-use cable-stayed bridge is completed on Jan 21, 2017

The Hutong Railway Yangtze River Bridge, a dedicated route into the Tiansheng Port, was linked up on Jan 21, 2017.

Contracted by China Communications Construction Company Limited (CCCC), it has the longest span among the world's heavy haul highway-railway steel arch bridges.

It is also the first of its kind to combine a more than 1,000 m span and a main tower 325 m high.

It required the highest volume of steel, 480,000 tons, among all bridges globally. The 500 Mpa high-strength steel was used in bridge building for the first time.

The steel type was jointly developed and produced by Chinese central SOEs including China Communications Construction Company Limited, China Railway Group Limited, Ansteel Group Corporation and Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp..

Beijing West Railway Station opens for service on Jan 21, 1996

On Jan 21, 1996, the T1 train, manufactured by CRRC Corporation Limited (CRRC), pulled out of the Beijing West Railway Station, marking the opening of what was then Asia’s largest and the world's fourth-largest modern railway passenger station.

Many enterprises including China Railway Group Limited, China Railway Construction Corporation Limited and China Railway Materials Group Corporation contributed to the station’s three-year construction.

A passenger transport hub in Beijing, the extra-large passenger station is the most functional and modern of its kind in China.

It is also the starting point of the Beijing-Kowloon Railway. 



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