The Indooroopilly Railway Bridge is a
railway
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
bridge of steel truss design which crosses the
Brisbane River,
Queensland
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Australia
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. The Indooroopilly Railway Bridge links
Indooroopilly
Indooroopilly is a riverside suburb 7km west of the Brisbane CBD, Queensland, Australia. In the , Indooroopilly had a population of 12,242 people.
Geography
Indooroopilly is bounded to the south and south-east by the median of the Brisbane Ri ...
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
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
A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units. The connected elements (typically straight) may be stressed from tension, compression, or ...
, fabricated in Italy by the Societa Anonima Elettrificazione S.P.A.
See also
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Bridges over the Brisbane River
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually somethi ...
References
Railway bridges in Queensland
Bridges in Brisbane
Bridges completed in 1957
History of Brisbane
Bridges over the Brisbane River
Steel bridges in Australia
Indooroopilly, Queensland
Chelmer, Queensland
Truss bridges in Australia
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