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This list of the longest arch bridge spans ranks the world's arch bridges by the length of their main span. The length of the main span is the most common way to rank bridges as it usually correlates with the engineering complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge. [ 1 ]
The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet (924 m) long over the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. With an arch 1,700 feet (518 m) long, the New River Gorge Bridge was the world's longest single-span arch bridge for 26 years; [4][5] it is now the fifth ...
The Maidenhead Railway Bridge may have the two longest arches made of bricks, 39 metres (128 ft). Building new masonry arch bridges today is a solely Chinese business. There are 18 stone arch bridges with spans exceeding 100 m (330 ft). [1] There are probably several dozens of stone arches exceeding 40m in the Fujian province only. [2]
This was to be the longest arch bridge for a thousand years both in terms of overall and individual span length, while the longest extant Roman bridge is the 790 m-long (2,590 ft) long Puente Romano at Mérida. The late Roman Karamagara Bridge in Cappadocia may represent the earliest surviving bridge featuring a pointed arch. [10]
The Rockville Bridge is the longest stone masonry arch railroad viaduct ever built, [ 2 ] at 3,820 feet (1,160 m). It has 48 70- foot spans. [ 2 ] The bridge crosses the Susquehanna River about 5 miles (8 km) north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The eastern end is located in Rockville and the western end is just south of Marysville.
The bridge, which opened on 29 April 2009, is the world's longest through arch bridge. [2] The continuous steel truss arch bridge with tie girders has a height of 142 m (466 ft) from middle supports to arch top, main span of 552 m (1,811 ft) and a total length of 1,741 m (5,712 ft). It carries six lanes of traffic with a pedestrian walkway on ...
Morning Glory is a natural arch, not a natural bridge. [13] 10: external image: Gaotun Natural Bridge: China, Guizhou, Gaotun: 73.2: 240: Span measured by NABS, 2010. [14] 11: Rainbow Bridge: United States, Utah, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area: 71.3: 234: Span measured by NABS, 2007. Formerly considered the 3rd longest span in the world ...
The Solkan Bridge (Slovene: Solkanski most, Italian: Ponte di Salcano) is a 219.7-meter (721 ft) arch bridge over the Soča River near Nova Gorica in western Slovenia (by railway terminology it is a viaduct). With an arch span of 85 meters (279 ft), it is the world's longest stone arch railroad bridge (and second-longest stone arch bridge ...