Calling Seniors

Gday Pinko
Its possibly a four lane highway now with a small culvert.

Could be here. You can see your old low level crossing between the new road and the rail bridge.

Have crossed that a tad few times.

Most railway bridges are built horizontal or on a continuous incline but this bridge is actually dipped in the centre. I don't know if this is by design or by ageing.

Alan

It has to Einsleigh. we crossed there 2010 and there was a huge tree trunk stuck half way up the timber work.

Greetings

Pic was taken in the sixties - you were in a Kombi - and you can't remember where you were at the time ???

Hmmm -sounds like it was an interesting and enjoyable trip lol


Cheers

Gazz

There's some good pics on the site below, of the original Einasleigh (get the spelling right, people!) Rail Bridge, the new road bridge, and the old causeway - which is different again to the one in Pinko's pic, obviously due to a causeway upgrade sometime in the 70's or 80's.

The Savannahlander - Einasleigh gets a new road bridge

The bridge has a bow in it, as the attention to a level railway grade was obviously a low priority on the engineering side of the line - no doubt due to trying to keep the rail line construction costs low.

Get a look at the grade behind the photo of the Savannahlander stopped (photo no. 15), and you can see you wouldn't be hauling heavy tonnages on grades like that!

The bridges braced style of trestle is obviously well-thought-out and well built, judging by the size of the tree trunks still caught up in the trestles.

There's been some serious volumes of water flowing under that bridge in those floods!

I have a vivid memory of Peter Wherrett doing a travel show on TV and standing on the Victoria River Bridge, when it was in flood.

He said, "There's 9 Sydharbs an hour flowing under my feet! What's a Sydharb, you ask? It's the volume of water contained in Sydney Harbour! - so there's 9 times the volume of Sydney Harbour flowing under this bridge every hour!".

Cheers, Ron.