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INDOOROOPILLY RAILWAY BRIDGE Latitude and Longitude:

27°30′22″S 152°58′26″E / 27.506026°S 152.973981°E / -27.506026; 152.973981
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Indooroopilly Railway
Coordinates 27°30′22″S 152°58′26″E / 27.506026°S 152.973981°E / -27.506026; 152.973981
CarriesRailway
Crosses Brisbane River
Locale Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Official nameIndooroopilly Railway Bridge
Characteristics
Design Truss bridge
Total length208.5 metres (684 ft)
History
Opened1957; 67 years ago (1957)
Location

The Indooroopilly Railway Bridge is a railway bridge of steel truss design which crosses the Brisbane River, Queensland, Australia. The Indooroopilly Railway Bridge links Indooroopilly and Chelmer stations, and has two long spans with one central pier. It was built just upstream and parallel to the Albert Bridge as part of the quadruplication of the Ipswich Line between 1955 and 1957.

History

Albert Bridge the first railway bridge at Indooroopilly.

The present bridge is 208.5 metres long with two equal spans. The Coordinator-General's Department designed the bridge and the Electric Power Transmission Pty Coy was the construction contractor. The superstructure was designed as a parallel chord truss bridge, fabricated in Italy by the Societa Anonima Elettrificazione S.P.A. [1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Queensland State Archives Series ID 18136, Indooroopilly Railway Bridge Plans, retrieved 26 November 2008