Re: Bridge not too far from a new image

["B." <gunzel412@dingoblue.gunzel.net.au>]

William Pearce <ben_issacs@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> 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!

Presumably the bridge it replaced carried trains to Sandridge, and
the name stuck?

Has the bridge always been called the 'Sandridge Bridge', or is
the name recent?

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B.

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