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Dashengguan Bridge

大胜关长江大桥
Dashengguan Bridge; 大胜关长江大桥
Coordinates	31°57′35″N 118°37′51″E / 31.959833°N 118.630972°E
Carries	6 rail tracks:; Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway; Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu High-Speed Railway; Nanjing Metro Line S3
Crosses	Yangtze River
Locale	Nanjing, Jiangsu
Characteristics
Design	Arch Bridge
Total length	1,615 m (5,299 ft)
Longest span	336 m (1,102 ft) (x2)
History
Construction start	2006
Construction cost	$537 million USD
Opened	2011
Location

The Dashengguan Yangtze River Bridge (simplified Chinese: 大胜关长江大桥; traditional Chinese: 大勝關長江大橋; pinyin: Dàshèngguān Chángjiāng Dàqiáo; lit. 'pass of the great victory') crosses the Yangtze River in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Construction of the bridge started in 2006 and it was completed in 2010. The bridge has two main spans of 336 m (1,102 ft) it is one of the largest arch bridges in the world.^[2] It carries six tracks: two for the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway^[3] (opened on 30 June 2011), two for the Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu high-speed railway (opened on 22 January 2011) and two for line S3 of the Nanjing Metro (opened on 6 December 2017).