Yore favourite rail bridges?

Cobraking/42101 · Fuckwit Crusher Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 693

Dr W I was up on the flying junctions last Sunday but my camera was for once not in my pocket and yeah it was realy cool to be up there Shit-eating grin

we walked up from the Clevland st bridge end to the crossovers on the top...we were cleaning ballast off of the brick parapets that the regulator had pushed up on there.

drwaddles · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject:

Bigged · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:23 pm Post subject:

A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans. The term viaduct is derived from the Latin via for road and ducere to lead something. However, the Ancient Romans did not use that term per se; it is a modern derivation from an analogy with aqueduct. Like the Roman aqueducts, many early viaducts comprised a series of arches of roughly equal length.
OK most Viaducts are of a masonary Construction.

Then we have trestles. MMMM more of an iron thingie not really a viaduct but is sometimes colloquially called one.
There are many kinds of trestles, most looking like the "I think its at lewisham" in new south where or moonee ponds Mbnong taradale and moorabool to be fine examples my favorite in this section would have to be Melton. Built in the late 1800s all by hand still doing what it was designed to do today after all those years, what a feat of engineering! Rodney Dangerfield

Finally we have truss bridges. many kinds of these too CBF finding my engineering book on bridges at the moment but the main types are the Pratt. Warren, Cantilevered and a few others I cant think right now.

I am a bridge Gunzell and for me going through truss bridges in my train looking at all the latice work, girders and Rivets really gives me a chubbie.
Funny though the west gate and other newer span bridges of the concrete era doesnt quite do it for me, similar for the harbour bridge.
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Skraw · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject:

I'll agree on concrete span bridges, Bigged but I'll have to defend the 'Arbour Bridge. To get an impression of it don't look at the postcards or even travel across it. Get under the bastard - around about Luna Park. Behold it! And feel humble!

Can't be conveyed in a photo, sadly.
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882seu4me · Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 47

Allan ... another type of truss.
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goolgarrah · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 3:44 am Post subject:

The viaduct on the SLR before Lilyfield is nice, so too is the one near the Greyhound Racetrack near the Fish Markets that goes over the park...

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T406 on the Orbost line on a VR Board trip, probably late '70s.
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Secret Agent · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject:

My favourite bridges, are the ones that stay up, as the train I am on passes over them, bothways if needed! Stick that one up your arse!! Moon

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Cobraking/42101 · Fuckwit Crusher Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 693

Some random pics taken yesterday of the John Witton bridge at Meadowbank end and Rhodes end while painting out graff shit while under traffic. Much fun with trains passing at 115kph.

Filtertron · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:31 am Post subject:

Some of my favorites ('Notch'll tell you I have something of a fetish for bridges...):

Moonee Ponds Creek Viaduct

Winter's Flat Trestle

Ironbark Gully Bridge

Goulburn River Bridge, Toolamba

Hughes Creek Bridge, Avenel

Taradale Viaduct

Moorabool Viaduct

Cairn Curran Viaduct

Goulburn River Bridge, Seymour
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dasher · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject:

Some nice bridges there Filtertron, but I thought someone would have given the viaduct over the Murrumbidgee at Gundagai a guernsey as well.

Unfortunately I cannot find a decent enough pic of it worth posting.
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Argus Tuft · Joined: 18 Jun 2007 Posts: 1285 Location: Jakarta

Strange thing. Perhaps it is just what appeals to Filtertron, or is it true that the Vics have few truss bridges? None amongst what he posted there whereas in New South pretty well any collection of bridge photos would have a few Pratt or Warren truss bridges.

Nice photos nonetheless. Just a comment on fashions in bridges between states.

Dasher, yes the Gundagai bridge was a good one, but a long time since it has seen a train. Don't know if it is still there. I would not call it a viaduct, but each to his own description. I would say it is a truss bridge over the river (can't remember which pattern and don't have a photo) then a trestle across the flood plain. However, I am no expert on bridges I'd have to say.

That Firth of Forth bridge is a ball biter. Hard to beat it, and I have seen it in the flesh so to speak. Come to think of it I think I crossed it, but t'was night time and I probably had a few too many beers by then.

For Oz the Hawkesbury is hard to beat. Tunnels both ends then the trains burst out onto the bridge. Mainly bloody sparks these days, but still a great sight.
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Skraw · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject:

I forgot that mighty span, dasher. Found some pics. Pity it's 20 years after the last train.

EDIT Plus one more from the north end - the old road bridge on the left.

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ninthnotch · Site Admin Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 2340

We only have had the two that I'm aware of; both crossing the Maribyrnong at Footscray.
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Skraw · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject:

Here's another Whitton special - Dubbo. Love those kick-arse supports! Look like they could hold up the Blue Mtns!

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