Re: Movable span bridges

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

Hey Hey

Thread just about out on my ISP and I was despairing about QLD. Nice to hear
that its not movable span free territory.

canetram59 wrote in message <37ba9c0b@grissom>...
>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
>> Message-ID: <01bedcaf$5a13ff00$ed2d11cb@rodsmith>
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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
>>
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