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RAIL BRIDGE

Other Name

CRESWICK RAIL BRIDGE

Location

OVER CRESWICK CREEK, CRESWICK, HEPBURN SHIRE

File Number

602729

Level

Registered

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RAIL BRIDGE SOHE 2008
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1 rail bridge creswick creek
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rail bridge creswick creek
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rail bridge creswick creek top
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rail bridge at creswick plan

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The Creswick Creek railway bridge on the Creswick to Clunes line was erected in 1874 by engineering contractors Thomas and Greenlaw. This bridge, consisting of wrought iron superstructure, supported on four groups of paired tubular cast iron stanchions across the creek, was designed by railways department engineers and manufactured by the Phoenix Foundry of Ballarat. The first train crossed on 2 September 1874. The Phoenix Foundry at Ballarat was the most celebrated engineering manufactory in provincial Victoria in the nineteenth century.

How is it significant?

The Creswick Rail Bridge is of historical, architectural and aesthetic significance to the State of Victoria.

Why is it significant?

The Creswick Creek Railway Bridge is of historical significance as an impressive example of this firm's work as well as being a rare example of iron railway bridge construction in Victoria. A similar bridge over the Deep Creek at Carisbrook has been dismantled.

The Creswick Creek Railway Bridge is of aesthetic and architectural significance for its dramatic situation over the wide Creswick Creek valley. The Creswick creek railway bridge superstructure has been replaced, but the original iron stanchions and wrought iron beams are intact.

Group

Transport - Rail