# Tourle Street Bridge > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tourle_Street_Bridge > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tourle_Street_Bridge.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourle_Street_Bridge > Source revision: 1241042954 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Bridge in Kooragang, New South Wales Tourle Street Bridge Carries Tourle Street Crosses Hunter River Locale Kooragang, New South Wales Owner Transport for NSW Characteristics No. of lanes 4 History Opened 6 May 2009 June 2018 (duplicated) The **Tourle Street Bridge** is a pair of [road bridges](/source/Road_bridge) that carry Tourle Street across the [Hunter River](/source/Hunter_River_(New_South_Wales)) from [Mayfield West](/source/Mayfield_West) to [Kooragang](/source/Kooragang) in the [Hunter Region](/source/Hunter_Region) of [New South Wales](/source/New_South_Wales), Australia. The original [steel](/source/Steel) [truss bridge](/source/Truss_bridge) opened on 20 February 1965.[1] On 6 May 2009 a two-lane replacement [concrete bridge](/source/Concrete_bridge) opened immediately to the east overcoming restrictions on vehicle height with the original demolished.[2][3][4] In June 2018, a nearly identical northbound bridge opened on the site of the 1965 bridge with the 2009 built bridge becoming one way southbound.[5][6][7][8] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** New Hunter River Bridge *[Main Roads](/source/Main_Roads_(periodical))* March 1965 page 65 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [$44 million Tourle Street bridge to open at Mayfield](https://web.archive.org/web/20210115235538/https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/495712/44-million-tourle-street-bridge-to-open-at-mayfield/) *[Newcastle Herald](/source/Newcastle_Herald)* 6 May 2009 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Tourle Street Bridge](https://decc.com.au/featured_project/6-tourle-street-bridge/) DECC 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Tourle St Bridge to be demolished](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-06-25/tourle-st-bridge-to-be-demolished/1331940) *[ABC News](/source/ABC_News_(Australia))* 25 June 2009 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Tourle Street Duplication](https://web.archive.org/web/20210116001129/https://mcilwain.com/projects/tourle-street-duplication/) McIlwain 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Traffic flowing smoothly on new Tourle St Bridge](https://www.nbnnews.com.au/2018/06/22/traffic-flowing-smoothly-on-new-tourle-st-bridge/) *[NBN News](/source/NBN_Television#News_and_Current_Affairs)* 22 June 2018 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [Tourle Street duplication at Kooragang almost complete](https://web.archive.org/web/20210116001905/https://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/about/news-events/news/ministerial/2018/180622-tourle-street-duplication-at-kooragang-almost-complete.html) [Roads & Maritime Services](/source/Roads_%26_Maritime_Services) 22 June 2018 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [Kooragang - duplication of Tourle Street and Cormorant Road](https://web.archive.org/web/20210116001844/https://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/projects/kooragang-tourle-st-cormorant-rd/index.html) Roads & Maritime Services v t e Towns, suburbs & localities of the City of Newcastle, New South Wales Towns, suburbs & localities Adamstown Adamstown Heights Bar Beach Beresfield Birmingham Gardens Black Hill Broadmeadow Callaghan Carrington Cooks Hill Elermore Vale Fletcher Georgetown Hamilton Hamilton East Hamilton North Hamilton South Hexham The Hill Islington Jesmond The Junction Kooragang Kotara Lambton Lenaghan Maryland Maryville Mayfield Mayfield East Mayfield North Mayfield West Merewether Merewether Heights Minmi New Lambton New Lambton Heights Newcastle Newcastle East Newcastle West North Lambton Rankin Park Sandgate Shortland Stockton Tarro Tighes Hill Wallsend Warabrook Waratah Waratah West Wickham Rivers and other waterways Glenrock Lagoon Hunter River Williams River Other places & points of interest Beaumont Street Calvary Mater Newcastle Christ Church Cathedral Fernleigh Track Fort Scratchley Hunter Ice Skating Stadium Hunter Street John Hunter Hospital Mount Sugarloaf Newcastle Basketball Stadium Newcastle City Hall Newcastle Civic Theatre Newcastle Court House Newcastle Customs House Newcastle Entertainment Centre Newcastle International Sports Centre Newcastle Museum Newcastle Street Circuit Nobbys Head Queens Wharf Royal Newcastle Hospital State Dockyard Stockton Beach Stockton Bridge Tourle Street Bridge University of Newcastle Victoria Theatre v t e Road infrastructure in regional New South Wales Motorways Federal Highway Hume Highway Hunter Expressway Pacific Motorway Brisbane–Brunswick Heads Sydney–Newcastle Princes Motorway Major highways Barrier Highway Barton Highway Central Coast Highway Great Western Highway Illawarra Highway Mid-Western Highway Mitchell Highway New England Highway Newcastle Inner City Bypass Newcastle Link Road Newell Highway Olympic Highway Pacific Highway Princes Highway Sturt Highway Minor highways Appin Road Bells Line of Road Big River Way Bruxner Highway Burley Griffin Way Castlereagh Highway Cobb Highway Fossickers Way Golden Highway Goldfields Way Gwydir Highway Kamilaroi Highway Kidman Way Kings Highway Lachlan Valley Way Memorial Drive Monaro Highway Oxley Highway Picton Road Riverina Highway Silver City Highway Snowy Mountains Highway Summerland Way Waterfall Way Other roads Alpine Way Barry Way Bathurst-Ilford Road Bucketts Way Bylong Valley Way Camden Valley Way Carnarvon Highway Escort Way Giinagay Way Goulburn-Oberon Road Henry Lawson Way Henry Parkes Way Irrigation Way Jenolan Caves Road Kosciuszko Road Macleay Valley Way Murray Valley Highway O'Connell Road Old Hume Highway Putty Road Remembrance Drive Solitary Islands Way Thunderbolts Way Wombeyan Caves Road Yanga Way Yass Valley Way Road bridges Abbotsford Balun Bindarray Beckers Bethanga Bland Creek Colemans Coonamit Cooreei Crankies Plain Dennis Dunmore The Entrance Fitzgearld (Aberdeen) Fitzgerald (Raymond Terrace) Gee Gee George Chaffey Glennies Goodradigbee Grafton Harwood Hampden (Kangaroo Valley) Hay Hexham Hinton Holt-Bragg Junction Karuah (Monkerai) Lennox (Glenbrook) MacDonald (St Albans) McFarlane McKanes Falls Macleay Valley Martin Mitchell's Causeway Mooney Mooney Morpeth Mulwala Mungindi Murray Barham Swan Hill Tocumwal Tooleybuc Nowra Rip Rossi Sea Cliff Sheahan Stockton Taemas Tea Gardens-Hawks Nest Tourle Street Towamba Vacy Victoria (Picton) Williams (Clarence Town) Wallaby Rocks Wollombi (Bulga) Yowaka (Greigs Flat) (disused/former) Denison Hampden (Wagga Wagga) Murrumbidgee (Carrathool) Old Cobram-Barooga Old Mildura Thornes Vehicular ferries Berowra Waters Lawrence Lower Portland Sackville Speewa Ulmarra Webbs Creek Wisemans Wymah Tunnels Cudgen St Helena Tugun Bypass --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Tourle Street Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourle_Street_Bridge) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourle_Street_Bridge?action=history)). 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