Steel box girder central spans on concrete piers with timber trestle approaches. Total length 70 metres.
Photo credit: Transport and Main Roads 851
Photo credit: Transport and Main Roads 851
Steel box girder central spans on concrete piers with timber trestle approaches. Total length 70 metres.
Photo credit: Burnett River Rail Trail
Photo credit: Burnett River Rail Trail
Lattice truss main span and rolled steel joist side spans on concrete piers with timber trestle approaches. Total length 76 metres.
Photo credit: Burnett River Rail Trail
Photo credit: Burnett River Rail Trail
Rivetted lattice truss main span with rolled steel joist spans either side on concrete piers and timber trestle approaches. Total length 86 metres.
Photo credit: G&K Rees 397, 2011
Photo credit: G&K Rees 397, 2011
Rivetted lattice truss main span on concrete piers with timber trestle approaches. Total length 55 metres.
Photo credit: Brian McGrath, 2011
Photo credit: Brian McGrath, 2011
Humphrey No 2 (48 metres long) is an early example of reinforced concrete in Australia. Each span is "discontinuous" (separate from its neighbours).
Photo credit: John Mellor, 2002
Photo credit: John Mellor, 2002
Humphrey No 1 (68 metres long) has two rivetted lattice truss spans and rolled steel joist side spans on concrete piers.
Photo credit: G&K Rees 378, 2011
Photo credit: G&K Rees 378, 2011
Reids Creek (106 metres long) had four rivetted steel Pratt Truss spans. Badly damaged in 2013, only the concrete piers remain.
Photo credit: Brian McGrath, 2011
Photo credit: Brian McGrath, 2011
Steep Rocky Creek (58 metres long) is an early example of reinforced concrete in Australia. Each span is "discontinuous" (separate from its neighbours). It has side spans of rolled steel joists.
Photo credit: John Mellor, 2002
Photo credit: John Mellor, 2002
The Upside Down Bridge
Underslung pin-jointed steel fish-belly truss spanning 45 metres supporting longitudinal steel beams with timber trestle approaches. Total length 69 metres.
Photo credit: John Mellor, 2004
Underslung pin-jointed steel fish-belly truss spanning 45 metres supporting longitudinal steel beams with timber trestle approaches. Total length 69 metres.
Photo credit: John Mellor, 2004
Nearly 1000 feet (294 metres) long and with 58 spans, this was the second longest timber trestle rail bridge in Queensland. It had significant bracing to help it withstand floods but it was extensively damaged in 2013.
Photo credit: G&K Rees, 2011
Photo credit: G&K Rees, 2011
The first bridge to be built was this elegant unreinforced concrete structure with a main span of 24 metres supporting four spandrel arches and two side arches. It was built in nine months and opened in December 1905. The bridge is State Heritage listed.
Photo credit: John Oxley Library API-73
Photo credit: John Oxley Library API-73