The Indooroopilly Railway Bridge is a railway bridge of steel truss design which crosses the Brisbane River

Brisbane River

The Brisbane River is the longest river in south east Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay. John Oxley was the first European to explore the river who named it after the Governor of New South Wales, Thomas Brisbane in 1823...

, Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. The Indooroopilly Railway Bridge links Indooroopilly

Indooroopilly railway station, Brisbane

Indooroopilly Station is a railway station in Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia, on the Ipswich and Rosewood and Springfield lines.Immediately south of Indooroopilly station, the line crosses the Brisbane River on the Albert Bridge, next to the Walter Taylor Bridge.-History:The railway west of...

 and Chelmer

Chelmer railway station, Brisbane

Chelmer Station is a railway station in Chelmer, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia, on the Ipswich and Rosewood and Springfield lines.-History:Chelmer Station opened north of it's current location in 1876 as Oxley's Point. In 1888, the station was renamed Riverton. A siding was built at the current...

 stations, and has two long spans with one central pier. It was built just upstream and parallel to the Albert Bridge

Albert Bridge, Brisbane

The Albert Bridge is a railway bridge of steel truss design crossing the Brisbane River, Queensland, Australia. The Albert Bridge links Indooroopilly and Chelmer stations, and has two long spans with one central pier....

 as part of the quadruplication of the Ipswich Line between 1955–1957.

History

The first Indooroopilly Railway Bridge, designed by Henry Charles Stanley, was placed in service in 1876 and washed away in the 1893 Brisbane flood

1893 Brisbane flood

The 1893 Brisbane flood, occasionally referred to as the Great Flood of 1893 or the Black February flood, occurred when the Brisbane River burst its banks on three occasions in February 1893. It is the occurrence of three major floods in the same month that saw the period named "Black February"....

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The present bridge is 208.5 metres long with two equal spans. The Coordinator-General's Department designed the bridge and the Electric Power Transmission Pty Coy was the construction contractor. The superstructure was designed as a parallel chord truss bridge

Truss bridge

A truss bridge is a bridge composed of connected elements which may be stressed from tension, compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads. Truss bridges are one of the oldest types of modern bridges...

, fabricated in Italy by the Societa Anonima Elettrificazione S.P.A.