Bengbu and the Huai River

The 1911 Jinpu railway bridge marks how a crossing changed the scale of settlement.

The 1911 Jinpu railway bridge turned a Huai River crossing into a major point on the north–south rail line and helped shape Bengbu’s growth.

A steel-truss railway bridge crosses the Huai River at Bengbu, with a low riverbank and distant city behind it.
The Bengbu Huai River railway bridge, photographed by MNXANL on 15 June 2016. The wide view shows the steel truss across the river; it does not depict the historic bridge’s 1911 opening or any particular train event.

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  1. The Bengbu Huai River railway bridge, photographed by MNXANL on 15 June 2016. The wide view shows the steel truss across the river; it does not depict the historic bridge’s 1911 opening or any particular train event.MNXANL · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ The saved file is the standard 1280px Wikimedia thumbnail (1280×851), not the 4912×3264 upstream original. The file page identifies MNXANL, 15 June 2016, and CC BY-SA 4.0. No added watermark or overlay is visible.