Re: Movable span bridges

["canetram59" <canetram59@hotmail.com>]

The Moreton Sugar Mill at Nambour has two bridges on their 2'0" gauge
tramway system with lifting spans to allow boats to pass through. One, known
as the Little Lift Bridge, is a short bridge located on Clark's Line and
spans Petrie Creek - I think this is little used now. The other is known as
the Big Lift Bridge (surprise, surprise!!) and spans the Maroochy River.
This bridge sees regular locomotive traffic in the cane season and also
river traffic meaning the lifting span has to be raised to allow boats
through. There is no interlocking or other safety system. The span itself is
raised and lowered by a hand worked windlass.
Regards
canetram59

Roderick Smith <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote in message
01bee58b$833bc5e0$bf2d11cb@rodsmith">news:01bee58b$833bc5e0$bf2d11cb@rodsmith...
> 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
> Newsgroups: aus.rail
> References: <37a44ec1.0@iridium.webone.com.au>
> Organization: Rail News Victoria
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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.
>
> --
> 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?
>
> --
> Regards
> Roderick Smith
> Rail News Victoria Editor
>