Mungindi Bridge

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The '''Mungindi Bridge''' is a [[road bridge]] that carries the [[Carnarvon Highway]] across the [[Barwon River (New South Wales)|Barwon River]] on the [[Queensland]]/[[New South Wales]] border at [[Mungindi, New South Wales|Mungindi]], New South Wales, Australia.

== Current bridge == The current Mungindi Bridge is a two-lane concrete bridge with a pedestrian footpath on one side. The bridge is higher to improve flood immunity of the rural highway. Construction of the current bridge and road approaches was jointly funded by [[Government of New South Wales|New South Wales]] and [[Government of Queensland|Queensland]] state governments under the Southern Queensland Accelerated Road Rehabilitation Project.<ref name="cmc">{{cite web |title=Mungindi Bridge |publisher=Civil Mining & Construction |url=http://www.cmc.net.au/index.php?number=106 |access-date=18 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/Projects/Name/B/Barwon-River-Bridge-replacement-Mungindi.aspx |title=New Mungindi Bridge |work=Department of Transport and Main Roads |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110313220608/http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/Projects/Name/B/Barwon-River-Bridge-replacement-Mungindi.aspx |archive-date=13 March 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Old bridge== The original Mungindi Bridge was a [[Historic bridges of New South Wales#Dare type truss|Dare-type truss]] road bridge, designed by Harvey Dare. It was one of forty Dare-type truss bridges built in New South Wales. The bridge was built by Lawson and Wladro in 1914. It was a single timber truss span of {{convert|27.7|m|ft}}, with two timber approach spans at each end giving the bridge an overall length of {{convert|61.6|m|ft}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=heritage.show&id=4300159 |title=Old Mungindi Bridge |work=NSW Roads and Traffic Authority |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406104918/http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=heritage.show&id=4300159 |archivedate=6 April 2011}}</ref>

== See also == {{stack|{{Portal|New South Wales|Transport|Engineering|Australian roads}}}} * [[Historic bridges of New South Wales]] * [[List of bridges in Australia]]

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[[Category:Road bridges in Queensland]] [[Category:Road bridges in New South Wales]] [[Category:Bridges completed in 2010]] [[Category:2010 establishments in Australia]] [[Category:Concrete bridges in Australia]] [[Category:Borders of New South Wales]] [[Category:Borders of Queensland]]