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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Bunbury Street Tunnel and Maribyrnong River Rail Bridge Bunbury Street, between Sims Street and Footscray Railway Station,, FOOTSCRAY VIC 3011 - Property No B7186	The Bunbury Street Tunnel and Maribyrnong River Railway Bridge are part of one of the most elaborate undertakings in rail construction in Victoria during the twentieth century, The Independent Goods Lines (IGL) - arguably second only to the construction of the Standard Gauge Line. The IGL was the second major dedicated goods line built in Victoria, (the first being the 1887 Newport - Braybrook Junction line). Built between 1926 and 1928 the new goods line incorporated a cut and ... more	B7186	State
Stringybark Creek Rail Bridge Beside Melba Highway,, YERING VIC 3770 - Property No B7069	The Stringybark Creek single track timber-and-steel rail bridge was built in 1887 as a longitudinal-timber-deck bridge with thirteen spans each of eleven feet, for the first stage of the Lilydale-Healesville Railway that linked Lilydale with Yarra Flats (later Yarra Glen). It is scientifically and historically significant at State level, being a very rare surviving intact example and the largest and most publically accessible example, of a rail bridge featuring a transitional ... more	B7069	State
Rail Bridge Campaspe River,, ROCHESTER VIC 3561 - Property No B5746	Classified: 23/06/1986	B5746	Regional
Timber Rail Bridge cnr Stewart Road and Bendigo-Murchison Road,, MURCHISON VIC 3610 - Property No B7031	This bridge, built in 1890, is scientifically and historically significant at State level. It stands apart from any other surviving Victorian Railways timber bridge for several reasons. It is the most authentic surviving example of its kind. The other known surviving examples of longitudinal-timber-deck rail bridges of similar (eleven-feet) span that preserve their original design relatively intact are a pair of much smaller structures on the Lilydale-Healesville Railway on the ... more	B7031	State
Wimmera River Rail Bridge Wimmera Highway crossing (beside),, QUANTONG VIC 3401 - Property No B6910	The Wimmera River single-track railway bridge at Quantong is the surviving remnant of an earlier much longer eighty-seven span rail-over-river bridge built in 1887, as part of the Horsham-Noradjuha spur line. This line of just under twenty miles in length was authorized under Duncan Gillies' 'Octopus Acts' of 1884, later becoming the Horsham-Goroke-Carpolac line. Some bridge sections were converted to earth embankment in the years after World War 1, leaving three independent ... more	B6910	State
Rail Bridge over Coliban River Rail viaduct Ellesmere Place (off), MALMSBURY VIC 3446 - Property No B1288	Railway Viaduct, Malmsbury, is an enormous bluestone structure erected in 1859 to carry the Melbourne-Sandhurst (Bendigo) Railway over the Coliban River. The total length of the structure is 500 feet and the bridge itself is composed of five arched spans each of 60 feet. The bridge is faced with rusticated masonry and the voussoirs and impost mouldings, string course and the huge cutwaters are features. The viaduct is one of the largest nineteenth century engineering structures ... more	B1288	State
Rail Bridge over Riddells Creek RIDDELLS CREEK VIC 3431 - Property No B2681	Strikingly elegant single span bridge notable for clarity of detail. Classified: 11/03/1971 File note: Good Condition. Vegetation has been cleared to improve viewing. Floodlighting has been installed (06/05/2011)	B2681	State
Koonwarra Rail Bridge,Tarwin River West Branch NO 1 Bridge, Tarwin River West Branch No 2 Bridge Beside South Gippsland Highway,, KOONWARRA VIC 3954 - Property No B6953	This group of three surviving impressive timber-beam rail bridges in very close proximity to one another, built in 1892 where the Great Southern Railway passed eastwards onto the Tarwin River flats near Koonwarra in South Gippsland, is of historical and aesthetic significance at State level. All three structures are located along half a kilometre of railway line, which makes for an unusual timber-bridge series that is very accessible from the nearby South Gippsland Highway. They are ... more	B6953	State
Former Cavendish Rail Bridge Henty Highway (adjacent),, CAVENDISH VIC 3314 - Property No B6912	The Cavendish Railway Bridge, built in 1920 for the final stage of the Hamilton-East Natimuk Railway, is a single-track timber and wrought-iron rail-over-river bridge. The bridge has seven timber-beam approach spans of twenty feet (6.1 metres), and three principal spans each of 42 feet (12. 8 metres) with wrought-iron plate girders, giving a total transverse-timber deck length of 246 feet (seventy-five metres). The line closed in 1979. The Cavendish Railway Bridge is ... more	B6912	State
Dennington Rail Bridge Warrnambool-Port Fairy Railway,, DENNINGTON VIC 3280 - Property No B6911	The Dennington Bridge, a long single-track timber-beam rail bridge built as an important component of the Warrnambool-Koroit section of the Terang-Port Fairy Railway in 1890, is historically, scientifically and aesthetically significant at State level. Completion of the Warrnambool-Port Fairy sections of the east-west railway in 1890 allowed the rapid transport of fresh fish and crayfish across the Denningron Bridge towards Melbourne and Geelong markets, and made the transport ... more	B6911	State

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