Bridging the Hawkesbury River: Part 3
In the early days of European settlement in the colony of New South Wales, the only way to travel from Sydney to the "Coal River" - later to be Newcastle…
The "old" and "new" Hawkesbury River railway bridges. The new bridge is on the right in the photo.
Bridging the Hawkesbury River: Part 2
By 1937 it had become apparent that the first bridge over the Hawkesbury River, NSW – a key link in the rail connection between the state capital Sydney and the…
Bridging the Hawkesbury River: Part 1
When the first railway bridge over the Hawkesbury River was opened on May 1, 1889, it completed the final link in a rail system that linked NSW with South Australia,…