Re: Bridge not too far from a new image

["William Pearce" <ben_issacs@optusnet.com.au>]

    Why is the Sandridge bridge so called? It was built in 1888, Sandridge
became Port Melbourne in 1884, so none of the trains that ran over this
bridge ever had Sandridge as a destination!

Bill.
"David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> The Sandridge rail bridge - known as a relic to some and an eyesore to
> others - should be enhanced to draw the north and south banks of
> Melbourne's Yarra River together.
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/20001114/A47671-2000Nov13.html
>
> (This is the bridge which used to carry the Port Melbourne and St Kilda
> lines over the Yarra.)