Movable span bridges

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

I posted this over a week ago, and haven't seen it yet.  I couldn't find it
in aus.rail August archives either, but did find six other related postings
which I hadn't seen on aus.rail.

Subject: Re: Movable span bridges
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Good project.
The Echuca bridge was not movable - it was high level.
The movable ones were Tocumwal (Murray River) road & rail, now rail only.
Murrabit (Murray River, Stony Crossing line), now road only.
Robinvale (Murray River) road & rail, now road only.
These were a straight lifting span.

Paringa bridge (Murray River, Barmera line) was another of these.

The bridge near Yelta was designed to take rail, but never did.

Menindee & Grafton were bascule spans.
AFAIK the monorail is not a movable link: the bridge is now immobile.

The Semaphore line must have had a movable span at Port Adelaide until
deviated, but I am not sure of the type.

Only slightly further afield, there was a lifting span in the Auckland dock
area.

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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Derick Wuen <cullend@webone.com.au> wrote in article
<37a44ec1.0@iridium.webone.com.au>...
> I have been looking for info on railway bridges in Australia where one or
> more spans are/were movable. So far the list is short.....
> Bridge            Waterway                      Section
> NSW
> Sheas Creek  Alexandria Canal        Botany Branch
> Menindee        Darling River               Condoblin-Broken Hill
> Grafton            Clarence River            South Grafton-Grafton
> NSW-Vic
> Echuca            Murray River                Echuca-Deniliquin NO
> Tas
> Bridgewater    Derwent River            Hobart-Bridgewater
> WA? SA? Qld?
> Does the Sydney Monorail on Pyrmont Bridge count?

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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor