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Pippan wrote in post #19477022
What happened to the first three road bridges Ray?

You nearly wound me up on this Pippan - very funny.
Forth - not to be confused with Fourth!
The bridges are - East to West - 1 - Forth Rail Bridge 1890. 2 - Forth Road Bridge 1964. 3 - Queensferry Crossing Bridge 2017 and 4 - Kincardine Bridge 1936, a good few miles East - beyond that, and as a sassanach, you enter the heathen unknown.

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Fog makes the best images

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I agree about the fog.

Ray.Petri wrote in post #19477394
You nearly wound me up on this Pippan - very funny.
Forth - not to be confused with Fourth!
The bridges are - East to West - 1 - Forth Rail Bridge 1890. 2 - Forth Road Bridge 1964. 3 - Queensferry Crossing Bridge 2017 and 4 - Kincardine Bridge 1936, a good few miles East - beyond that, and as a sassanach, you enter the heathen unknown.

Ray these are the first and second ones . Unfortunately don't have the third.
The first one is unique and was to be demolished. Deemed unsafe
A local engineer with much interest in railway history was successfully able to see it repurposed for a bike way,
Original Forth River Railway Bridge
The original Forth River Rail Bridge, alongside Bass Highway at Leith, was built in 1885, making it one of the oldest movable bridges in Australia. The bridge has eight metal girder spans totalling 135.4m and this is quite substantial, but the primary significance is the bridge's metal girder swing span, 2 x 12.8m. Of the movable bridges listed in the Register of Australian Historic Bridges only two existing bridges are older - at Bourke (1878) and (1883). Of these, the bridge at Bourke is a lift bridge and that at Sale, while a swing bridge, has trusses for its primary structural system. The old Forth River bridge is therefore the oldest remaining bridge of its type in Australia. It is also unusual for a movable bridge to be designed for railway use only. Most other movable bridges were either road bridges or combined road and rail bridges.

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avondale87 wrote in post #19478968
Ray these are the first and second ones . Unfortunately don't have the third.
The first one is unique and was to be demolished. Deemed unsafe
A local engineer with much interest in railway history was successfully able to see it repurposed for a bike way,
Original Forth River Railway Bridge
The original Forth River Rail Bridge, alongside Bass Highway at Leith, was built in 1885, making it one of the oldest movable bridges in Australia. The bridge has eight metal girder spans totalling 135.4m and this is quite substantial, but the primary significance is the bridge's metal girder swing span, 2 x 12.8m. Of the movable bridges listed in the Register of Australian Historic Bridges only two existing bridges are older - at Bourke (1878) and (1883). Of these, the bridge at Bourke is a lift bridge and that at Sale, while a swing bridge, has trusses for its primary structural system. The old Forth River bridge is therefore the oldest remaining bridge of its type in Australia. It is also unusual for a movable bridge to be designed for railway use only. Most other movable bridges were either road bridges or combined road and rail bridges.

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Thanks for the info, Richard. It seems to have stood the test of time 128 years. Not sure if it is still in use as a rail bridge from your write-up. Does it have a steam engine to turn it. The river looks a bit shallow there.
I guess nothing big uses it.

Ray.Petri wrote in post #19479494
Thanks for the info, Richard. It seems to have stood the test of time 128 years. Not sure if it is still in use as a rail bridge from your write-up. Does it have a steam engine to turn it. The river looks a bit shallow there.
I guess nothing big uses it.

Ray you've got me curious. I'll ask
There's a new rail bridge plus road bridges all alongside
Here's an aerial view

Foggy morning on the river.

avondale87 wrote in post #19479513
Ray you've got me curious. I'll ask
There's a new rail bridge plus road bridges all alongside
Here's an aerial view

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Just realised The Four Forth bridges
Pippan will be happy now

Thanks for the picture, Richard. I looked for a link but couldn’t find one - is it in Tas or Aus? I wish our roads were as quiet as yours!

Ray.Petri wrote in post #19479644
Thanks for the picture, Richard. I looked for a link but couldn’t find one - is it in Tas or Aus? I wish our roads were as quiet as yours!

Ray there's not a link.
Well there is but it's complicated!

If you look in Google Earth for Leith, Tasmania it should take you there.
Now the interesting bit

To turn required a spanner on the turning gear.
54.5 turns later and you've rotated the span.
Don't laugh. That's how they did it.

Quiet! I call it busy, but I heed your point

avondale87 wrote in post #19479669
Ray there's not a link.
Well there is but it's complicated!

If you look in Google Earth for Leith, Tasmania it should take you there.
Now the interesting bit

Yep - ok, I have found it - looking at the nearby property, it seems like they are built with small gardens/plots - I was under the impression that there was loads of land down under.

Was it one of those big old wrought iron spanner’s like you would take the wheels off a steam roller with? Was it Whitworth, Imperial or metric.?
Come on, Richard, do your homework! Did it rotate 90 - 180 or 360 degrees?

I see you don’t know what real traffic is! Shall I send you a few pictures?