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Victorian road bridge design. It is a type of truss in which vertical web members are in compression and diagonal web members in tension. Many possible configurations include pitched, flat, or camelback top chords. It may be recognised by diagonal members which appear to form a "V" shape toward the centre of the truss when viewed in profile. Variations include the
Baltimore truss and Pennsylvania truss. Elaboration in the form of variable depth from sloping upper chords as in the Camel-back arrangement, reduced the amount of steel required, and also dead weight for a similar strength. The Pratt truss compares to Warren truss and Howe designs in the different compression and tension arrangements of diagonal and vertical members. It was named for Thomas W. and Caleb Pratt (Boston railway engineers), who were issued a patent for a truss bearing their name in April 1844.
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had risen to the base of the piers. Erection of the trusses was underway. Falsework of underslung, divided Warren-type, metal trusses supported on three intermediate steel lattice towers, were used as staging for erecting the Pratt trusses. These were assembled in situ with the use of a travelling crane running across the falsework and hot riveting of preformed, punched and cut angle and flat section steel. As the permanent trusses were completed the staging was dismantled and moved on to the next span. Steel work for the bridge was fabricated at least in part, by
Vickers Ruwolt of Burnley Melbourne. Photographs of components such as the truss members and bearings are in the collection of Museum Victoria. At least one of the main trusses was trial assembled at Vickers Ruwolt's Burnley works, probably one of the largest structures to be erected in this fashion.
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Department is also implied by photographs of components fabricated by Charles Ruwolt and Sons held by Museum Victoria. It is therefore very likely that the New South Wales Public Works Department and Victorian State Rivers and Water supply commission were jointly responsible for the design and construction, as was the case with the Hume Dam itself.
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produced of the finished bridge to show it at its most impressive. The
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Mining however, continued only sporadically into the 20th century, with further leads opened at Mount
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Engineer Percy Allen and constructed in 1924, also as a result of the creation of an artificial lake on the Murray River. The other prominent engineers involved in the Hume
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Construction of the weir took seventeen years with the reservoir being completed and officially opened by the Right Honourable Lord Gowrie, Governor of NSW, on 21 November 1936 and a plaque on the northern pier of the dam commemorates the occasion. The Bethanga Bridge was evidently constructed in the
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The use of Pratt trusses is unusual in Victoria, not being readily taken up as a viable bridge design. However they are more common in New South Wales. The use of the Pratt truss in this instance reflects the mode of construction employed during the construction of the Hume Dam whereby the New South
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deck. The road deck is 7.7 metres (25 ft) wide. In 1961 the bridge deck and truss structure was also raised by 300 millimetres (12 in) in response to the upgrading of Hume Dam and works to increase the storage capacity of the dam. In 2005 the waffle slab decking was replaced to raise their
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The bridge was clearly seen as a landmark and complementary to the Hume Dam itself in terms of national pride and potential tourist value. The State Rivers documented the bridge's construction and produced a series of lantern slides showing progress. A number of hand coloured slides and images were
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H. V. Beresford was construction engineer on the Hume Weir from about 1925, but died while still engaged on the project in 1927. At the height of construction, more than 1100 workers were employed at the site. These workers were housed in two fully serviced towns adjacent to the site, one on either
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The Bethanga-Talgarno gold and copper field became one of the top copper producers in Victoria although both minerals proved difficult to extract from the intractable ores. The alluvial field was first reported in 1852 and was visited by mining officials in 1854, but the field was not really opened
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The overall length is given in VicRoads inventory as 733 metres (2,405 ft) although a deck length of 752.4 metres (2,469 ft) and total length of 750 metres (2,461 ft) in their inspection system appears more probable. The nine truss spans are each 82 metres (269 ft) with the NSW
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MLC took an interest in the Bethanga mining scene and purchased mining leases and major mines at Bethanga, then built his own smelting works to treat the ore, completing three furnaces by June 1878. The Bethanga Goldfields Ltd company made a takeover in 1895 and both metals were mined and treated.
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Bethanga Bridge is of scientific (technical) significance for the unusual use in Victoria of Pratt trusses, a predominantly NSW technology, its construction. The Pratt truss was frequently used in New South Wales but this represents a rare example of its use in Victoria. The use of this system in
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The Murray River boundary between New South Wales and Victoria is the top of the southern bank of the river. As such all structures of the river are considered to be in New South Wales. Because of its unique location, over the waters of a dam with the border running down the centre of the body of
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Bethanga Bridge is of technical significance for the unusual use in Victoria of Pratt trusses, a predominantly NSW technology based on American engineering practice . The Pratt truss was frequently used in New South Wales but this represents a rare example of its use in Victoria. The use of this
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The bridge is of aesthetic significance for its dramatic rural setting over a wide expanse of water (when lake levels are high) and occasionally at great heights over broad river flats (when the lake is down). It is also of aesthetic significance for the vast scale and length and the rhythmic
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decking was replaced to raise the load capacity, new guard rails were installed and the NSW approach to the bridge was widened for safety reasons. These 2005 works were undertaken with the joint advice and approval of Heritage Victoria and the NSW Heritage Office.
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cuts due to the State - Federal agreement and advanced stage of the project. The NSW Department of Public Works carried out modifications between 1950 and 1961 to enlarge the dam to about twice its original size to the present capacity of 3,038 gigalitres (668
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and River Murray Water are negotiating on the future management responsibility for the bridge. A current 33-tonne (36-short-ton; 32-long-ton) load limit applies and recent tenders have been advertised for the cleaning and repainting of the bridge.
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and an obelisk near the river commemorates this. Hume and Hovell came upon the river on 16 November 1824, naming it the Hume River, and inscribing a tree near the riverbank the next day before moving on to the south. In 1829, the explorer
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load capacity, new guard rails were installed and the NSW approach to the bridge was widened for safety reasons. These 2005 works were undertaken with the joint advice and approval of Heritage Victoria and the NSW Heritage Office.
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deck. In 1961 the bridge deck and truss structure was also raised by 300 millimetres (12 in) in response to the upgrading of Hume Dam and works to increase the storage capacity of the dam. In 2005 the
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plus a 14-metre (46 ft) approach span on the New South Wales side. The overall span is 752 metres (2,467 ft). The road deck was initially timber but was replaced in 1961 with the current concrete
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now stands) the original site by Hume and Hovel's inscribed tree became the popular crossing place for people and stock on their way to new settlements in the south.
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671:markets for Melbourne. The
470:Victorian Heritage Register
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2789:Truss bridges in Australia
1539:Waddell, J. A. L. (1891).
607:The first crossing of the
216:752 metres (2,467 ft)
2769:Bridges completed in 1930
2639:Murrumbidgee (Carrathool)
2432:Hampden (Kangaroo Valley)
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1387:State Library of Victoria
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1427:"Bethanga Bridge 1930 -"
1064:Bethanga Bridge in 2010.
1040:Bethanga Bridge in 2014.
789:Department of Main Roads
673:railway line from Sydney
309:Department of Main Roads
305:Contracted lead designer
2804:Bridges in the Riverina
2799:Albury, New South Wales
2153:Snowy Mountains Highway
1121:Australian roads portal
753: imp gal; 803
737:River Murray Commission
712:, on 28 November 1919.
619:led an expedition from
261:4.2 metres (14 ft)
232:82 metres (269 ft)
224:7.7 metres (25 ft)
37:Bethanga Bridge in 2010
2577:Tea Gardens-Hawks Nest
1597:Next bridge downstream
1499:Philipp, June (1982).
1468:Cridlebaugh, Bruce S.
1389:, Pictures Collection.
1107:New South Wales portal
765:Snowy Mountains Scheme
665:railway from Melbourne
488:State heritage (built)
419:State heritage (built)
271:25 metres (82 ft)
66:36.09019°S 147.05902°E
2632:Hampden (Wagga Wagga)
2472:MacDonald (St Albans)
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2269:Murray Valley Highway
1777:Great Western Highway
1767:Central Coast Highway
1481:East, Ronald (1979).
1429:. Engineers Australia
869:Pratt through trusses
315:Engineering design by
2617:Yowaka (Greigs Flat)
2294:Solitary Islands Way
2234:Goulburn-Oberon Road
2199:Bathurst-Ilford Road
1589:Next bridge upstream
1011:Engineering heritage
71:-36.09019; 147.05902
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2143:Silver City Highway
1988:Castlereagh Highway
1852:Newcastle Link Road
1832:New England Highway
1802:Mid-Western Highway
1353:. Heritage Victoria
1322:Engineers Australia
1017:Engineers Australia
716:side of the river.
663:The arrival of the
383:September 1930
197:Trough construction
125:Victoria, Australia
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2083:Lachlan Valley Way
1978:Burley Griffin Way
1943:Bells Line of Road
1385:SRWSC collection,
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1149:Engineering portal
792:bridge was built.
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