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There are actually two major bridges at Tiger Leaping Gorge \u2013 one for road traffic and one for rail \u2013 completed in the past few years.<\/p>\n

1. Expressway suspension bridge
\n– Part of the Shangri-La \u2194 Lijiang expressway
\n– 1,017 m total length, single 766 m main span, single-tower steel-truss suspension design
\n– Deck about 250 m above the Jinsha (upper Yangtze) River
\n– Road deck joined January 2020, opened to traffic soon after .<\/p>\n

2. Railway suspension bridge (Jinshajiang Hutiaoxia Railway Bridge)
\n– Carries the new Lijiang\u2013Shangri-La line (Lixiang Railway)
\n– 660 m main span, 250 m high, truss-stiffened suspension bridge
\n– One tower 194 m tall, the other 155 m; main spans 132 + 660 + 132 m
\n– Completed 2021, now gives a \u22481 h train ride between the two tourist cities .<\/p>\n

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Both spans sit only about 1 km apart just downstream of the famous gorge viewing platform and are designed to clear a future 200 m-deep reservoir if the long-proposed Tiger Leaping Gorge dam is ever built .<\/p>\n

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There are actually two major bridges at Tiger Leaping Gorge \u2013 one for road traffic and one for rail \u2013 completed in the past few years. 1. Expressway suspension bridge – Part of the Shangri-La \u2194 Lijiang expressway – 1,017 m total length, single 766 m main span, single-tower steel-truss suspension design – Deck about … Continue reading tiger leaping gorge bridge<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ynatcn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ynatcn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ynatcn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ynatcn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ynatcn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ynatcn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"http:\/\/www.ynatcn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ynatcn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ynatcn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ynatcn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}