Indooroopilly Railway Bridge
Appearance
Indooroopilly Railway | |
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Coordinates | 27°30′22″S 152°58′26″E / 27.506026°S 152.973981°E |
Carries | Railway |
Crosses | Brisbane River |
Locale | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Official name | Indooroopilly Railway Bridge |
Characteristics | |
Design | Truss bridge |
Total length | 208.5 metres (684 ft) |
History | |
Opened | 1957 |
Location | |
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The Indooroopilly Railway Bridge is a
Ipswich Line
between 1955 and 1957.
History
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The present bridge is 208.5 metres long with two equal spans. The Coordinator-General's Department designed the bridge and the Electric Power Transmission Pty Coy was the construction contractor. The superstructure was designed as a parallel chord truss bridge, fabricated in Italy by the Societa Anonima Elettrificazione S.P.A.[1]
See also
References
- ^ Queensland State Archives Series ID 18136, Indooroopilly Railway Bridge Plans, retrieved 26 November 2008