Noojee Trestle Bridge

[Brian]

One of the reasons we went away in the 'van last weekend, was to visit this trestle bridge.

It is the tallest Trestle Bridge remaining in Victoria. Between about 1880 and the First World War there were hundreds of this type of bridge built in Victoria. Many of them were to transport timber for the Goldfields. As most of the Goldfields were in remote areas, the only fuel for the steam boilers of the mining machinery was wood and the most economic means of hauling this was by narrow gauge railways. There are still many of them in existence but this is probably one of the best preserved examples in Victoria. Some of these wooden trestles still have trains running on them.

[Clicker]

Good grief Brian ...is that the original wood ? Lovely pic by the way ....shows  it off a treat.

[Brian]

43 minutes ago, Clicker said:

Good grief Brian ...is that the original wood ? Lovely pic by the way ....shows  it off a treat.

Yes, Polly, much of this is original, but.............on 13th Jan 1939, "Black Saturday" over 2 million hectares of Victoria went up in flames. Much of the forested areas were unaccessable and therefor left to burn. All around this area burned along with many towns and sawmills with the loss of nearly 100 lives. Much of this bridge burned but was later restored as it was needed to carry freight and passengers as well as the much needed timber for the rebuilding.

[JHFoto]

Good shot, nice treatment,,,

[Clicker]

Once a fire gets that big, it's difficult to see how it can be stopped....I suppose building firebreaks isn't always practicable given the vast areas that would need to be covered...  But then I suppose   even  they can be traversed with burning debris carried on the winds .   It's good to see it being preserved though ... Thanks for a little bit of history too  Brian ... 

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[fuzzyedges]

Nice processing and composition

Its like what you see when you open and old text book  

[Brian]

On 2/2/2016 at 20:09, Clicker said:

Once a fire gets that big, it's difficult to see how it can be stopped....I suppose building firebreaks isn't always practicable given the vast areas that would need to be covered...  But then I suppose   even  they can be traversed with burning debris carried on the winds .  

We had very bad fires about 5 years ago and it was said (officially) that burning branches an inch thick were landing up to 30kms in front of the actual fire front. Even I find that hard to believe, but it came from the Fire Authority.

[Clicker]

Good Grief ... Fire breaks are about as useless as a chocolate fireguard then !

[colinb]

interesting picture Brian any chance of seeing the unedited version?