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Tyers Road Causeway Bridge

Other Name

The Bluff Causeway Bridge

Location

At Tyers Road crossing of Latrobe River, approx. 5 Km north of Traralgon, TRARALGON VIC 3844 - Property No B6954

File Number

B6954

Level

State

Statement of Significance

What is significant? Tyers Road Causeway Bridge is a low all-timber bridge of twenty-five spans of 6.6 metres, with a total deck length of 166 metres. It has squared stringers, no corbels, and a transverse-timber deck.
It was built in 1920-21 and is now bypassed.
How is it significant? Tyers Road Causeway Bridge is significant for historical and technical reasons at the State level.
Why is it significant? The Tyers Road Causeway Bridge is historically significant as the second-oldest surviving Victorian timber bridge known to have been built under Country Roads Board supervision (the oldest being Jubilee Bridge, Omeo), and the oldest known surviving C.R.B. Developmental Road bridge. It is markedly different from any other surviving Developmental Road bridge, and there is no other surviving Victorian road bridge with which this unusually long and low causeway structure might be compared.
The Tyers Road Causeway Bridge, is technically significant as Victoria's longest (at 166 metres) surviving all-timber road bridge, and the State's second-longest transverse-timber-decked road bridge (longest is McKillops Bridge, VHR 1849, a composite bridge). This bridge retains early features such as squared timber stringers, lack of corbels, transverse-timber decking without running planks, and hand-hewn timber gravel beams. The absence of corbels is unique among Victoria's surviving CRB-approved and funded bridges. The bridge is also unique as a causeway approach across a river floodplain, ancillary to a main river-crossing bridge.
Classified: 10/11/1998

Group

Transport - Road

Category

Road Bridge