Construction of Crimea Bridge’s railway spans over the water area of the Kerch Strait has begun on the section between the Tuzla island and the fairway of the Kerch-Yenikalsky Canal. The bridge rail deck of over 2 km will be connected with the arch.
Incremental launching technology is applied for installation of the bridge spans above the water. Unitized structures assembled on the Tuzla island are slided one by one to the support structures with the speed of about 45 mm per minute. The assembled railway structure is more than 5 meters high and more than 15 meters wide. The spans are placed on support structures the distance between which does not exceed 65 m.
Parallel to the works in the Kerch Strait, railway infrastructure is being developed on both shores of the strait. These are railways running from the Krasnodar Territory and the Crimea for 40 and 17.5 km accordingly. Railway approaches will be put into operation simultaneously with the commissioning of the Crimea Bridge’s railway part, in 2019. The highway part of the bridge will be put into operation in December 2018.
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