Deck work is beginning on the world’s longest high-speed railroad arch bridge, a 384-meter-long span over Spain’s Almonte River that will carry high-speed rail between Plasencia and Badajoz.
With the concrete arch, some 70 m high, completed last summer, the stays are being removed from the centerpiece of a 966-m-long viaduct on the 165-kilometer new stretch of the 450-km Madrid-Extremadura high-speed route.