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Photograph - Photographs of rebuilding the Wright Trestle Bridge, 1990s

  • Concrete foundations laid on a steep descent into a gully with a new foundation with reinforcing mesh at the bottom as part of the rebuilding of the Puffing Billy line to Gembrook

    VEMUP1091

  • At the top of the photo is a concrete truck with a long funnel set up from the truck down the steep slope to deliver concrete to the place where there are two workers at the bottom of the photo - as part of the rebuilding of the Puffing Billy line to Gembrook.

    Image of construction of foundations

  • Parallel sets of concrete foundations that have been built across the contour to the bottom of a steep gully and up the other side - as part of the rebuilding of the Puffing Billy line to Gembrook.

    Image of parallel sets of concrete foundations up and down a steep slope

  • Concrete foundations laid on a steep descent into a gully with a new foundation with reinforcing mesh at the bottom as part of the rebuilding of the Puffing Billy line to Gembrook
  • At the top of the photo is a concrete truck with a long funnel set up from the truck down the steep slope to deliver concrete to the place where there are two workers at the bottom of the photo - as part of the rebuilding of the Puffing Billy line to Gembrook.
  • Parallel sets of concrete foundations that have been built across the contour to the bottom of a steep gully and up the other side - as part of the rebuilding of the Puffing Billy line to Gembrook.

Historical information

The building of the original Wright Trestle Bridge in the late 1890s as part of the construction of the narrow-gauge railway from Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, was a significant engineering achievement for its time. The railway (now known as Puffing Billy) was closed in the 1950s. When it re-opened in the 1960s it terminated at Emerald Lake. In the 1990s, it was decided to rebuild the section of the line from Emerald Lake to Gembrook - this was completed in 1998. The major project challenge was to rebuild the historic Wright Trestle Bridge which traversed a very steep gully in Wrights Forest, Avonsleigh. These photographs have been provided by Graeme Smith who supplied the concrete to build the foundations of the bridge

Significance

These photos show the foundation stage of the rebuilding of the historic Wright Trestle Bridge as part of the larger reconstruction of the Puffing Billy line from Emerald Lake to Gembrook.

Physical description

Five color photographs all depicting concrete foundations laid up and down a steep gully as part of the rebuilding of the Wright Trestle Bridge.

Inscriptions & markings

On back of VEMUP1091 3/5, hand-written: 'Graeme Smith / Unloading on / Puffing Billy line / in Wright Forest / Concrete supplied / from P B M Packham'

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