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Floating span into position c1888

Floating span into position c1888

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(Souvenir of the opening of the Hawkesbury Bridge, May 1st, 1899 )

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Dangar Island

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Bridges Construction Railways Rivers and Catchments

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First Hawkesbury River railway bridge

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Hawkesbury River

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Union Bridge Company

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Dangar Island

Home to Kuring-gai (Guringai) people until at least 1828, the island called Mullet Island by Arthur Phillip was leased to Andrew Thompson, salt maker, in the 1790s. In the 1860s it was bought by the Dangar family, becoming Dangar Island officially in 1922, by which time it had been sold and subdivided. It is now a residential community and holiday island.

Rivers and Catchments

Bridges

Railways

Construction

First Hawkesbury River railway bridge

Single line railway bridge assembled on Dangar Island and constructed across the river between 1886 and 1889. Structural cracks and deterioration in the 1930s resulted in its replacement in the 1940s 60 metres west of the first bridge.

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Hawkesbury River

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River that runs for 120 kilometres from the confluence of the Nepean and Grose rivers west of Sydney to Broken Bay north of Sydney. The Darug and Darkinjung people who lived along the river before European settlement called it Deerubbin.

Union Bridge Company

Bridge fabricating company from Buffalo, New York, which won the contract to construct the Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge in 1886. The bridge was opened in 1899.

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