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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Anderson Street Bridge Morrell Bridge Anderson Street, SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141 - Property No B1598	The Anderson Street or Morell Bridge over the River Yarra constructed in 1899 and wrongly attributed to celebrated soldier and civil engineer, John Monash, was designed and constructed by Sydney based engineers, Carter, Gummow and Co, patentees of the Monier Construction System in Australia. The bridge, designed as a Monier arch structure of three equal river spans with concrete abutments, macadamised roadway, concrete footpaths and cast iron balustrade panels, is the first ... more	B1598	State
Swanston Street Bridge Swanston Street, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B3120		B3120	File only
Sawbridgeworth Wiseman House , St Agnes Girls Home , Lutheran Church (part of ) 30-32 Widford Street,, GLENROY VIC 3046 - Property No B1673	Built 1887. Identical house, Ashleigh, built at no 16 Widford Street was demolished in 1971. Classified: 27/01/1966	B1673	Local
Church Street Bridge Church Street / Chapel Street / Alexandra Avenue,, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No B5505	The Church Street bridge, completed in 1924, is historically, technically and aesthetically significant at State level. HISTORICALLY - Replacing an earlier iron bridge over this important Yarra crossing, this was the first major bridge over the Yarra for 25 years, and the first of a group of important new classical bridges. It played a significant cultural role in strengthing the South Yarra/Richmond axis at the time, and was seen as a symbol of progress and brotherhood. Its ... more	B5505	State
Rail/Road Bridge Over Murray River Murray Bridge Heygarth Street,, ECHUCA VIC 3564 - Property No B2091	The Murray Bridge at Echuca was erected in 1875. It serves railway and vehicular traffic on a common carriageway. There is also a separate cantilevered pedestrian pathway. The bridge and causeway approaches are constructed of steel. They comprise a roadway hung between two giant girders and supported in pairs of giant doric style columns. The portal frame arches stiffen the girders and diagonal bracing acts similarly to each pair of columns. This bridge was the first physical ... more	B2091	Local
Bete Bolong Creek Bridge Orbost-Buchan Road,, BUCHAN VIC 3885 - Property No B6845	The Bete Bolong Creek Bridge, constructed in 1930, is a rare and unusually authentic example of a transverse-decked timber-beam pile-and-stringer road bridge with a horizontally-curving deck to accommodate a road bend at a stream crossing. The substructure consists of timber abutments and wing walls, and four-pile timber piers. The curving deck retains the original pre-1931 type of transverse-timbered deck with running planks to accommodate motor vehicles. ... more	B6845	State
Nicholson River Railway Bridge Adjacent to Princess Highway,, NICHOLSON VIC 3882 - Property No B6946	The Nicholson River Railway Bridge is historically, scientifically and aesthetically significant at State level. Built in very difficult years of wartime labour and material shortages, during 1915-1916, it is a substantial single-track sixteen-span composite timber-steel-concrete structure of unique design, with a total deck length of 180 metres and standing at an impressive height above the broad floodplain. The Nicholson River Bridge is a very complex structure. It combines ... more	B6946	State
Fyansford Bridge Hamilton Highway, FYANSFORD VIC 3221 - Property No B2841	Early example of re-inforced concrete (Monier) construction by Sir John Monash. Note: No longer in use Classified 05/08/1971	B2841	State
Tyers Road Causeway Bridge The Bluff Causeway Bridge At Tyers Road crossing of Latrobe River, approx. 5 Km north of Traralgon, TRARALGON VIC 3844 - Property No B6954	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. Tyers Road Causeway Bridge is significant for historical and technical reasons at the State level. The Tyers Road Causeway Bridge is historically significant as the second-oldest surviving Victorian timber bridge known to have ... more	B6954	State
Goods Shed & Footbridge Railway Station,, NUMURKAH VIC 3636 - Property No B5953	Goods Shed Statement of Significance: A standard "Light Lines" three door timber framed weatherboard clad goods shed with metal bow string truss roof and platform in situ. A portable goods office is attached at the north. The railway to Numurkah was opened in 1881 and the goods shed, built by Pritchard and Blackwood, completed in the same year. The style of the goods shed was first used in the constructions of the North-eastern railway to Wodonga in 1873 where the few remaining ... more	B5953	State

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