trailer world Issue Two 2013

Ausgabe Eins 2012 5 Photo:mauritiusimages/Curtis Road on the top, rails on the bottom The pylons made from reinforced concrete project for 206 metres into the sky and the bridge is drawn out for 7,845 metres: for the last 13 years, the Öresund bridge, together with the Drogden tunnel and the artificial island of Peberholm has formed an imposing connection between the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen and Malmö in Sweden. It is the world’s longest ca- ble-stayed bridge for combined road and rail traffic: the upper deck carries the four lane toll motorway, the trussed beam carrier below carries two railway lines. It took 40 months to build this colossus. Large prefabricated pylons and bridge beams were fitted using a pontoon crane, the pylon foun- dations of the middle high bridge were delivered by a transport catamaran. All in all that cost one billion Euros. The photo

trailer world Issue Two 2013

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