The Mungindi Bridge is a
road bridge
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that carries the
Carnarvon Highway across the
Barwon River on the
Queensland
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New South Wales
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border at
Mungindi
Mungindi is a town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality on the border of New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland, Australia. The town is within Moree Plains Shire in New South Wales. Within Queensland, the locality is split between the ...
, New South Wales, Australia.
Current bridge
The current Mungindi Bridge is a two-lane concrete bridge with a pedestrian footpath on one side. The bridge is higher to improve flood immunity of the rural highway. Construction of the current bridge and road approaches was jointly funded by
New South Wales
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and
Queensland
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state governments under the Southern Queensland Accelerated Road Rehabilitation Project.
Old bridge
The original Mungindi Bridge was a
Dare-type truss road bridge, designed by Harvey Dare. It was one of forty Dare-type truss bridges built in New South Wales. The bridge was built by Lawson and Wladro in 1914. It was a single timber truss span of , with two timber approach spans at each end giving the bridge an overall length of .
See also
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Historic bridges of New South Wales
This list documents historical bridges located in New South Wales, Australia. Road, rail and pedestrian bridges are listed.
Generally bridges built before WWII (1939) have been included in this list.
Historical context
Bridge construction in New ...
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List of bridges in Australia
Historical bridges
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Bridges of architectural interest
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References
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