Australia's Bridges: Glebe Viaducts in NSW (2)

March 2011 (-33.875 deg., 151.177 deg.) Glebe Viaducts

This photo of the Glebe Viaduct in Jubilee Park was taken half a mile away from the ANZAC (Cable-Stayed) Bridge.  Consequently, we don't see much of this bridge, which is the longest masonry viaduct in New South Wales.


According to the Heritage Branch Website, "The bricks are laid in English bond pattern with soldier courses defining the archways. The arches are evenly spaced, being 28 x 10.06m (33 feet) clear spans. The viaduct stretches approximately 446.5 metres, making it the largest brick viaduct in the NSW rail system."

I imagine the bricks came from the Brick Pit by Olympic Park that we visited on March 27th and 28th. A few years ago the viaducts were modified with catenary poles and an overhead power line to carry the Metro Light Rail. 


On our last night in Australia, we walked to Glebe for dinner just as it started to rain. However, when we asked where the closest train station was to get back to Sydney, we were told it was Central Station!

Australia's Bridges: Glebe Viaducts in NSW (2) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Australia's Bridges: Glebe Viaducts in NSW (1)

March 2011 (-33.875 deg., 151.192 deg.) Glebe Viaducts

In 1892 Sydney's Metropolitan Railway began building a separate freight line from Central Station and Darling Harbour out to Rozelle Bay and Glebe. One of the nice features of this line are the viaducts at Wentworth Park (shown) and Jubilee Park. Each viaduct included millions of bricks and thousands of timber piles over what was originally a swamp.

More information about the Glebe Viaducts is available at the Heritage Branch Website. We'll look at the Jubilee Park Viaduct tomorrow. 

Australia's Bridges: Glebe Viaducts in NSW (1) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.