Bulga Rd Plank Bridge - Bobin, NSW, Australia
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MVMTBiker
S 31° 42.355 E 152° 16.755
56J E 431704 N 6491934
Where Bulga Road crosses Bobin Creek, on the Mid-North Coast of NSW, is a wooden plank bridge.
Waymark Code: WMXFC5
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 01/06/2018
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This Wooden Plank Bridge is on a 'back-country' narrow bitumen road, about a kilometre past the small town (village) of Bobin. On each approach to the bridge is a 2 metre high Flood Level Gauge. (The deck of the bridge is only about 1.5 metre high off the flowing water of Bobin Creek.)
While it is a Continuous Span bridge, using telephone pole length hardwood poles as full-length beams to cross the Bobin Creek, there is a 30 cm square wooden beam almost in the middle, supported by concrete pylons that gives it a two-span look. The lengthwise wooden planks of the deck are bolted to cross-wise beams that are attached to the 'telephone poles'. There is only a low (less than 10 cm high) wooden ledge on the edges, to provide minimal safety of vehicles from going off the side.
Vehicles are 'encouraged' to approach this bridge at a slower speed than the regular travel along the country road, by having a bitumen 'speed hump' at either end of the bridge.
It would be interesting to find out how much higher floods have gone over the deck, and if the bridge survived, or was washed away; and if this is a replacement bridge.
Visited: 0738 - 0740, Monday, 11 July, 2016
Type: Plank Bridge
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