Angebuckina Bridge, SA

The Central Australian Railway was a 1241 km railway line between Port Augusta, South Australia, and Alice Springs, Northern Territory constructed between 1878 and 1929 and ceased operating in 1980.

The Angebuckina Bridge carried the railway across the Neales River floodplain. It was opened in January 1892.

The bridge is 587 metres long and consists of 19 spans of lattice wrought iron construction. The spans sit on cast iron cylindrical piers.

The South Australian Government issued a tender call on the 29 March 1889 for the construction and delivery of ironwork for the superstructure and the contract was let to James Hooker who owned the Lion Foundry at Kilkenny in South Australia. Construction of the bridge began on site in 1890 with up to 350 government labourers constructing it by hand.

The Angebuckina Bridge was the longest bridge in South Australia until the Onkaparinga Bridge on the Seaford Railway line was opened in 2014.

After the closure of the line in 1980 most of the track was removed but the Angebuckina Bridge remains.