The invention discloses a trough girder. The trough girder comprises one unit of continuous girders which contain no less than three strides. The trough girder is characterized in that in the direction of the continuous girders, the cross section of the girder is a trough type or a combination of a trough type and a box type, at the central bearing point of the continuous girders, the cross section shape of the girder is composed of two parts of an upper part and a lower part, the upper part is an opening trough girder, the lower part is a
box girder, in the extension directions of the two sides from the central bearing point, the height of the trough girder on the upper part of the cross section maintains unchanged in the direction of the girder length, the apical margin of the girder is level, the height of the
box girder on the lower part of the cross section gradually decreases, that is, the apical margin of the
box girder is level in the direction of the girder length, the bottom margin of the box girder is gradually close to the apical margin of the box girder, at a place which is near to the middle of a middle stride of the continuous girders and the end part of a side stride of the continuous girders, the height of the box girder decreases to zero, and the cross section shape of the girder becomes the cross section of the opening trough girder composed of a three-way web and a
baseboard. According to the trough girder, the building height from a bridge surface of a continuous
girder bridge to the girder bottom of the continuous
girder bridge is effectively reduced, the trough girder is beneficial to the reduction of the weight of the upper part structure of a bridge and is beneficial to the design of a vertical section of a transport line where clearance is required under the bridge, and thus the project cost is reduced.