Saltwater River Rail Bridge
Saltwater River Rail Bridge | |
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Saltwater River rail bridge | |
| Coordinates | 37°47′54.00″S 144°54′59.39″E / 37.7983333°S 144.9164972°E |
| Carries | Bendigo railway line |
| Crosses | Maribyrnong River |
| Locale | Footscray, Victoria, Australia |
| Owner | VicTrack |
| Characteristics | |
| Total length | 220 ft (67 m) |
| Longest span | 220 ft (67 m) |
| No. of spans | 1 |
| Piers in water | 0 |
| History | |
| Designer | William Bryson. |
| Constructed by | girders = George Holmes & Company; bluestone abutments - Pierce & Dalziel |
| Fabrication by | William Fairbairn |
| Construction start | 1856 |
| Construction end | 1858 |
| Location | |
The Saltwater River Rail Bridge is a large steel arch truss railway bridge completed in 1858 and crossing the Maribyrnong River (formerly Saltwater River) on the Melbourne to Footscray railway in Melbourne, Victoria. It had the longest span of any bridge in Victoria for thirty years.