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Old Railway Bridges - Northern NSW

  • Jayman6
    Jayman6
    7 years ago
    Started exploring a few of the old disused railway lines and bridges around the Northern Rivers NSW. Some cool old timber and steel infrastructure & history to explore. None of this has been used since around '04 I think, and sadly it's now so dilapidated that any hope of reviving the Northern Rivers Rail Link is dashed. Feel free to share similar photos in this thread.
    Below is near around Crabbes Creek.



  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    7 years ago
    When i was a kid we used to comb the bush around Helensburgh , NSW, for the fabled and forgotten rail line that took a train load of ww2 weapons to a hillside tunnel and was sealed forever. We did find some tracks that had been scattered around the thick bush but could never find any clear leads as to if this urban myth is true. 
  • SRV72
    SRV72
    7 years ago
    An old pic of me and my dad on the railway line at Billinudgel prior to the closure. Had to be quick though lol

  • chriso
    chriso
    7 years ago
    my hometown in Gundagai. when i seen this recently i was horrified...
    In the background is the longest wooden bridge in Australia. When i was a kid i remember it being used as the Hume hwy before bypasses were built.
    When trucks would pass each other mirrors would sometimes clip other.


  • chriso
    chriso
    7 years ago






  • FLHuTChU
    FLHuTChU
    7 years ago
    Got heaps of pics Chriso.


  • chriso
    chriso
    7 years ago
    nice pics ol mate.
    ol bridge aint looking good, to think trucks used to go on it and now people aint even allowed to walk across it
  • Croc696
    Croc696
    7 years ago
     Great photos Mate!  I've always had a thing for old railway bridges, there are a few beauties in Victoria as well.
  • Krash Kinkade
    Krash Kinkade
    7 years ago
    Chriso i remember riding over that old bridge at Gund...... passing dog on tucker box on my way down hwy south rattlin' rockin' rollin' over that old bridge.
    Anyone remember the old bridge at Wellington NSW falling down with a truck on it?


  • chriso
    chriso
    7 years ago
    haha yeah mate that would have been fair while back,there be no riding across her now.
  • Sniffenabout
    Sniffenabout
    7 years ago
    I've seen that bridge at Gundagai.  Hope they get the funds to preserve it.
  • kermit
    kermit
    7 years ago
    I saw the Gundagai bridge recenly too. Pretty cool. I love old bridges and railway stuff. Any abandoned factories etc too. 
    There's a pretty cool, old bridge down near Goulburn on the old hume hwy. Think it's called the little sydney harbour bridge because of the similar shape. There was/is? Another at Maldon near Picton.

    As for the Helensburgh tunnel, you guys don't mean the one near the old station right? Because that's easily found, and a cool location.