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Bridge

Type - Bridge
Alfords Point bridge
Anzac bridge
Battle Bridge
Beencke bridge
Bentley's Bridge
Blackbutt Bridge
Captain Cook Bridge
Como railway bridge
Cowpasture bridge
De Burghs bridge
Endeavour bridge
Fig Tree bridge
First Hawkesbury River railway bridge
Fullers Bridge
Gasworks bridge
Gladesville bridge
Glebe Island Bridge
Hawkesbury River railway bridge
Iron Cove bridge
Lansdowne Bridge
Lennox Bridge (Blue Mountains)
Lennox Bridge Parramatta
Long Gully Bridge
Macarthur bridge
Meadowbank railway bridge
Milperra Bridge
Moxham Road bridge
Newtown Bridge
Noller Bridge
Old De Burghs bridge
Old Gladesville bridge
Peats Ferry Road Bridge
Prout's Bridge
Pyrmont Bridge 1857
Pyrmont Bridge 1902
Roseville Bridge
Ryde Bridge
Silverwater Bridge
Spit bridge
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Tank Stream bridge
Tarban Creek bridge
The Chute
Tom Uglys Bridge (1929)
Tom Uglys Bridge (1987)
Undercliffe bridge
Unwin's Bridge
Victoria bridge Penrith
Woronora bridge

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Bridge

Alfords Point bridge

One of three major road crossings of the lower Georges River. A second bridge was opened for southbound traffic on 22 August 2008.

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Anzac bridge

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Cable-stayed bridge spanning Pyrmont and Glebe Island, forming part of the Western Distributor freeway.

Battle Bridge

Bridge built of sandstone in 1873 across Hawthorne Canal. The bridge was widened c1937 by the addition of steel beams and a concrete deck which obscures the original arch.

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Beencke bridge

Pedestrian bridge over Berrys Creek which linked Greenwich and Wollstonecraft. It was replaced with a steel and concrete structure in 1964.

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Bentley's Bridge

Stone bridge across Rushcutters Creek built by convicts under the supervision of Lieutenant ACD Bentley.

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Blackbutt Bridge

First bridge linking Pyrmont with Glebe Island which was replaced by the Glebe Island bridge.

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Captain Cook Bridge

Six lane concrete girder bridge which spans 475 metres of the Georges River between Sans Souci and Taren Point. Constructed by John Holland Pty Ltd.

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Como railway bridge

Single-track wrought iron lattice girder railway bridge across the Georges River, later converted to a pedestrian bridge.

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Cowpasture bridge

Bridge over the Nepean River at Camden.

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De Burghs bridge

Six-lane concrete bridge across the Lane Cove River, which replaced the nearby timber De Burghs bridge in 1967.

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Endeavour bridge

Road bridge crossing the Cooks River. It carries the General Holmes Drive, linking Sydney Airport at Mascot to Kyeemagh.

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Fig Tree bridge

Iron truss bridge built in 1885 across the Lane Cove River linking Linley Point and Hunter's Hill. It was replaced in 1963.

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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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Fullers Bridge

Bridge across the Lane Cove River linking Chatswood with North Ryde. The bridge is named after the Fuller family which operated a farm on the small area of land which existed on the river banks, in the late 19th century.

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Gasworks bridge

Lattice girder bridge of 110 metres with three spans which built as a road bridge across the Parramatta River.

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Gladesville bridge

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Concrete-arch bridge across the Parramatta River between Drummoyne and Huntleys Point. Until 1980, at 305 metres, it was the longest concrete arch span in the world and it was the first large bridge to be designed by computer.
It was designed by Tony Gee at Maunsell and Partners together with construction by Stuart Brothers jointly with Reed and Mallik of the UK, it was opened by HRH Princess Marina of Kent in 1964. In 2015 it was declared an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

Glebe Island Bridge

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Electrically operated swing bridge designed by Percy Allen, bridging Rozelle and Pyrmont over Johnstons Bay. It replaced Blackbutt bridge and was later replaced by the Anzac bridge.

Hawkesbury River railway bridge

Railway bridge across the Hawkesbury River near Brooklyn. The original bridge opened in 1889 and was replaced in 1946.

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Iron Cove bridge

Steel truss bridge across Sydney Harbour from Rozelle to Drummoyne constructed by Hornibrook McKenzie Clarke Pty Ltd. The original bridge was opened in 1882 but replaced by 1955. A duplicate bridge opened in 2011.

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Lansdowne Bridge

Single 34 metre span masonry arch bridge over Prospect Creek which still carries traffic on the Hume Highway more than 170 years after its construction. The stone was quarried 11 kilometres away on the Georges River.

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Lennox Bridge (Blue Mountains)

Stone arch bridge over Lapstone Creek, Glenbrook, designed by David Lennox.

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Lennox Bridge Parramatta

Single span sandstone bridge of 23 metres constructed with convict labour across the Parramatta River. Modified slightly, it remains a rare example of early nineteenth century engineering.

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Long Gully Bridge

Suspension bridge built to encourage residential development at Northbridge and Cammeray. Poorly maintained it was threatened with demolition in the 1920s and 1930s but is now listed on the State Heritage and Conservation Register.

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Macarthur bridge

Bridge over the Nepean River at Camden, opened in 1973.

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Meadowbank railway bridge

Bridge across the Parramatta River opened when the Sydney and NSW rail systems were undergoing a period of rapid expansion. The wrought iron structure and cast iron cylinders were imported from England, and the above-track sections are locally made steel lattice trusses. It has now been turned into a pedestrian and bicycle way.

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Milperra Bridge

Bridge across the Georges River in south west Sydney.

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Moxham Road bridge

Bridge in Northmead thought to have been constructed by a local stonemason after 1926.

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Newtown Bridge

Bridge over the railway line adjacent to Newtown station. Often regarded as Newtown's civic and cultural heart. It was a popular open-air meeting site in the first half of the twentieth century and attracted political rallies, soapbox speakers and religious preachers.

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Noller Bridge

Timber truss footbridge across the Parramatta River constructed by Parramatta Park trustees to replace one built in 1887 but destroyed by floods in the 1890s.

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Old De Burghs bridge

Bridge across the Lane Cove River, which was built of a single de Burgh timber truss, the longest ever built in Australia. The bridge was superseded by the new De Burghs bridge in 1967, and destroyed in a bushfire in 1994.

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Old Gladesville bridge

Opening swing bridge which carried traffic across the Parramatta river from 1881 to 1964. Its sandstone piers remain visible west of the current Gladesville bridge.

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Peats Ferry Road Bridge

Road bridge across the Hawkesbury river near Brooklyn.

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Prout's Bridge

Contentious bridge constructed across the Cooks River at Canterbury to enable easy access to Sydney markets. The imposition of a toll however was to divide the community.

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Pyrmont Bridge 1857

Wooden pile bridge with an iron centre swing span which crossed Cockle Bay. It was demolished for the new bridge in 1899.

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Pyrmont Bridge 1902

Timber truss bridge constructed with a steel opening span, which was one of the first to be driven by electricity from the Ultimo Powerhouse. The span is still operating smoothly and the bridge has been recognised as a National Engineering Landmark. It is one element of the working harbour that has survived into the post-industrial present.

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Roseville Bridge

One of only two crossings over Middle Harbour, which links the north shore with the northern beaches.

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Ryde Bridge

Lift span bridge built in the 1930s across the Parramatta River between Uhrs Point Ryde and Rhodes. The mechanism to operate the lift span has been removed but the bridge still carries road traffic north across the river. A new southbound bridge was built in the 1990s.

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Silverwater Bridge

Bridge over Parramatta River between Silverwater and Rydalmere.

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Spit bridge

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Sydney's only remaining lift bridge on a major arterial road.

Sydney Harbour Bridge

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Steel through arch bridge from Sydney business district to the North Shore, constructed between 1923 and 1932.

Tank Stream bridge

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Bridge across the Tank Stream that divided early Sydney. The first timber log bridge was built by convicts in October 1788 and improved in April 1792 after it had been damaged. In the middle of 1803 construction of a stone bridge to replace the timber bridge began, and was completed in 1804 by stonemason Isaac Peyton. The workmanship was poor and the bridge collapsed later in the year, requiring rebuilding. By 1811 the bridge had been widened, with numerous modifications to follow. By 1860 the stream, now little more than a foetid sewer, had been covered over.

Tarban Creek bridge

Arch bridge opened in 1965 across Tarban Creek between Hunter's Hill and Huntleys Point.

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The Chute

Low trestle bridge across Katoomba Falls Creek, a component of the Katoomba coal tramway.

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Tom Uglys Bridge (1929)

Pratt truss bridge that was the first crossing of the Georges River, between Blakehurst and Sylvania.

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Tom Uglys Bridge (1987)

Duplication of the original Tom Uglys Bridge (1929) over the Georges River, constructed to relieve traffic congestion.

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Undercliffe bridge

Bridge constructed across the Cooks River at Marrickville. It had formally been the site of Thorp's punt.

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Unwin's Bridge

Bridge originally constructed by convict labour in 1836 for Frederick Wright Unwin across the Cooks River at Bayview Avenue, Tempe. It was replaced by the present bridge in 1891.

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Victoria bridge Penrith

Wrought iron box plate girder bridge that crosses the Nepean River at Penrith. The building of the bridge allowed the railway that had previously terminated at Penrith, to reach the Blue Mountains.

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Woronora bridge

Box girder road bridge over the Woronora River at Woronora which was constructed by Barclay Mowlem Construction.

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