Your reports and pictures are most welcome. Highly competitive rates are paid, especially if exclusive to The RM. THE first bridge connecting the Chinese and Russian rail networks opened on August 17. Despite a border that stretches for thousands of miles it was only the third railway line to cross it. Officially known as the China-Russia Tongjiang- Nizhneleninskoye Bridge, the dual gauge 1435mm/1520mm 2215metre-long single track bridge over the Amur River, which forms the border, enables freight trains from China to access the Trans-Siberian railway at Birobidzhan which is the main town in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast in eastern Siberia.