Re: [General] Bridge terminology

[" Ian" <iansmith@optusnet.com.au>]

"Bernard Smith" <epping.smiths@NOSPAMbigpond.com> wrote in message
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> "Ronald BESDANSKY" <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> > If a bridge carries a railway OVER a road, watercourse etc, it's an
> > UNDERBRIDGE. If it carries a road etc over the railway, it's an
> OVERBRIDGE.
> > What about a bridge which carries on railway over another, e.g.
> Botany Line
> > over Illawarra at Sydenham (NSW) and Long Cove Viaduct (NSW western
> line)???
> > Is it an overbridge on the lower line and an underbridge on the
> higher??
>
> They are underbridges, because if you stand on the bridge the other
> line is *under* you.
>
> (If you stand on the other line, you are not on a bridge.)
>
I'ii wait for the  '  unabridged version..............'

Ian S