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ROAD OVER RAIL BRIDGE

Location MACEDON STREET SUNBURY, HUME CITY File Number 10/014992-01 Level Registered

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The road over rail bridge, Riddell Road, Sunbury, was constructed in 1861 on the Melbourne-Bendigo line by the Victorian Railways. It is a single span, depressed arch basalt bridge with string course, tapering abutments, faced with rusticated masonry with drafted edges and voussoir features. The deck carries a roadway over the double track railway.

How is it significant?
The road over rail bridge, Riddell Road, Sunbury is historically and architecturally significant to the State of Victoria

Why is it significant?
The road over rail bridge is historically significant for its associations with the opening of the "main trunk lines", Victoria's first railway lines (c.1857 ? 1869). These were the formative years of railway development in Victoria.

The bridge is also architecturally significant, as a representative and intact example of a mid-19th century railway bridge of its type (single arched masonry bridge carrying a roadway over a double track railway). It demonstrates a distinctive method of bridge construction.