Tatong Bridge - 1962 - Tatong, Vic, Australia - Bridge Date Stones and Plaques on Waymarking.com

The two-lane, asphalt covered concrete bridge is on a tree-lined country road a couple of hundred kilometres NE of Melbourne. It is between the small rural towns of Tatong and Tolmie. It has straight immediate tarred approaches to it. While there was some pooled water in Holland Creek, nothing was flowing when I was there. The reinforced concrete bridge is a three-span cantilever bridge, resting on two rectangular concrete pillars with a concrete 'T-Bar' at the top for supporting the road deck. The pillars are set to either side of an intermittent rocky stream bed. Square concrete pillars are spaced along the bridge top with 12cm metal pipe for side rail 'handrails'. There is no pedestrian width to the bridge, so caution is required when walking it. There are diagonally stripped black and white rectangular reflectors to the four corners of the start of the bridge; with the Dated Plaque at the northwestern end, on the northern side of the bridge.

Seven long 'I-Beam' steel girder run full length under the deck of the bridge. There are concrete abutments to either end of the bridge, with a small amount of fill required to have a straight and level approach to the bridge. One of the concrete abutments also has an embedded metal plaque of:

C.R.B.
1962

C.R.B. stands for Country Road Board, which was the Victorian government authority responsible for building and maintaining roads between 1913 and 1983 - Wikipedia: CRB

There is also a brushed stainless steel plaque attached with two tech-screws given the specific number of the bridge, so as to prescribe maintenance schedules and costing: SN 3764

Visited: 1720, Sunday, 6 January, 2019
[I had come down to Victoria to attend the equivalent of a Boy Scout Jamboree, but would be helping with only 2,500 youth.]

Date built or dedicated as indicated on the date stone or plaque.: 1962 Date stone, plaque location.: Northern end, northern side, vertical pillar; one embedded plaque in concrete abutment Road, body of water, land feature, etc. that the bridge spans.: Holland Creek Parking (safe parking location): S 36° 49.536 E 146° 08.316 Website (if available): Not listed

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