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Video | Main tower for huge high-speed railway bridge in China tops out
30 May 2025
Contractors have successfully topped out a main tower of the Shituo Yangtze River Bridge in China.
The bridge forms part of the Chongqing-Wanzhou high-speed railway, which has a total length of 250.9 kilometres (155.9 miles), running eastward from a hub in Chongqing, along the Yangtze river to Wanzhou.
China Railway Bridge Bureau Group is building the bridge, which is over a kilometre long, for a reported bid price of CNY 1.95 billion (US$271 million).
The cable-stayed bridge will feature two 235m-tall (771ft) double diamond-shaped towers once complete and will have the longest span of a dozen bridges along the high-speed railway.
The bridge will carry two railway lines on one side and six lanes of traffic on the other.
Construction of the bridge is one of nine separate lots of work on the railway, which is due for completion in 2027.
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