Echuca Road and Rail Bridge, Cobb Hwy, Moama, NSW, Australia
Posted by: 
blingg
S 36° 07.321 E 144° 45.214
55H E 297831 N 6000180
Built as a rail bridge now a road bridge
Waymark Code: WMZ4CK
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 09/08/2018
Views: 3
The Murray Bridge at Echuca was erected in 1875. It served railway and vehicular traffic on a common carriageway. There is also a separate cantilevered pedestrian pathway. The bridge and causeway approaches are constructed of steel. They comprise a roadway hung between two giant girders and supported in pairs of giant doric style columns.
This bridge was until 1989 a combined road and rail bridge, with the rail track down the middle of the roadway and the traffic closed off when a train needed to use the bridge. A separate rail bridge has since been built, adjacent and on the upstream side.
The railway line is still visible from the underside
List: Register of the National Estate
Place ID: 4345
Place File No: 1/05/354/0009
URL database reference: [Web Link]
Status:
Registered
Year built: 1875
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