NSW Engineering Timeline: Road Bridges
| Pre 1788 | 1788-1799 | 1800-1819 | 1820-1839 | 1840-1859 | 1860-1879 | 1880-1899 | |
| ROAD BRIDGES
Years opened |
Timber beam bridge over Tank Stream, 1788. | Pontoon bridge over South Creek at Windsor, 1802. Masonry bridge over Tank Stream, 1803. |
Horseshoe Bridge, Mitchell’s Pass, 1833. Lansdowne Bridge, Prospect Creek, 1835. Lennox Bridge, Parramatta River, 1839. |
First swing span bridge, Blackwattle Creek, Sydney Wentworth Park, 1850. Laminated timber arch - Victoria Bridge, Wallis Creek, Maitland, 1852. First timber truss bridge - at Carcoar, 1855. WC Bennett’s (Old PWD truss) first NSW timber truss bridges, 1858. |
First sliding span bridge - Pyrmont Bridge, Darling Harbour, 1862. First metal truss bridge - over Hunter River at Pitnacree, East Maitland, 1866. Oldest remaining metal truss bridge - Prince Alfred Bridge at Gundagai, 1867. |
First vertical lift bridge, Murrumbidgee River, Balranald, 1882. First McDonald truss bridge, Cataract River at Broughton’s Pass,1886. First metal arch - Smollett Street Bridge over Bungambrawatha Creek, Albury, 1889. First bascule span (drawbridge type) bridges at Belmore River and Camden Haven River, 1891. Experimental Monier arch on Parramatta Road, Burwood as culvert, 1894. First Allan truss bridge over Yarramunmun Creek near Yalwal, 1894. Unreinforced concrete arch bridge over Black Bobs Creek near Berrima, 1896. Bridge over Hawkesbury River, Windsor re-decked using reinforced concrete beams and slabs, 1897. Monier arch bridge over railway at Hill Top, 1897. | |
| 1788-1799 | 1800-1819 | 1820-1839 | 1840-1859 | 1860-1879 | 1880-1899 |
| 1900-1919 | 1920-1939 | 1940-1959 | 1960-1979 | 1980-1999 | 2000-2019 | |
| ROAD BRIDGES
Years opened |
First de Burgh truss bridge – The Queens Bridge over Queanbeyan River, 1900. First reinforced concrete Monier arch bridge, Reads Gully near Tamworth, 1900. First Dare truss bridge – Cooreei Bridge over Williams River at Dungog, 1905. First reinforced concrete slab bridge - at Muttama Creek, Cootamundra, 1914. First reinforced concrete beam bridge at American Creek, Fig Tree, 1914. First continuous beam bridge, Fullers Bridge, Lane Cove, 1918. |
Sydney Harbour Bridge, metal arch bridge 1932. Clarence River Bridge, Grafton, a double decker road and rail bascule span bridge, 1932. |
Mittagong Creek, Bowral - first pre-stressed concrete bridge in NSW, 1953. Bobbin Head was DMR’s first post-tensioned completed September 1956. Corunna Lake and Nangudga Lake on Princes Hwy were the DMR's first pre-tensioned bridges, 1957. |
Gladesville Bridge: first 1000’ span concrete arch bridge; one of the first bridges using a suite of computer programs for analysis and detailed design, 1964. | ANZAC Bridge over Johnstons Bay – first cable-stayed bridge, 1995. | Sea Cliff Bridge opened 2005. |
| 1900-1919 | 1920-1939 | 1940-1959 | 1960-1979 | 1980-1999 |
