Yellow River Road-rail Bridge completed

The Yellow River Road-rail Bridge section of the Menghua Railway (Inner Mongolia-Jiangxi Railway) finished closure on Oct 1, the China Railway Construction Company has announced.

Situated at the junction of Yuncheng city, Shanxi province and Sanmenxia city, Henan province, the 5,664-meter-long bridge is a key engineering project that links the two sides of the Yellow River. Designed as a shared bridge with three functions, it includes a six-lane expressway with a speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour linking Yuncheng and Sanmenxia, a four-track railway for coal transportation, and a part of the Yuncheng-Sanmenxia Railway.

Constructed by China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Group, the Menghua Railway was an integral part of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) and will primarily transport coal from the north to the south. The 1,837-kilometer-long bridge is expected to set three world records after its completion, and it will be a new transport corridor for the national strategy "North-to-South Coal Transportation Project", whose carrying capacity is predicted to be 200 million metric tons per year. Construction started in August 2015 and the project is scheduled to be finished and open to the public by 2020.