Historical information

Old Johnston Street Bridge, earlier known as Studley Park Road Bridge, across Yarra River between Kew and Abbotsford. Original iron trestle bridge built 1876. Replaced 1954-56 by current concrete bridge, built by Country Roads Board to design by Bruce Watson, using cast-in-place reinforced concrete curved T girders, opened 1956. Project re-routed Studley Park Road to present-day alignment, leaving old bridge to be dismantled. Photograph shows old bridge still in use, with dismantled timbers in foreground.

Physical description

Colourised photograph, curved road in foreground with cars. Grass verge with piles of timber, decking and bridge timbers, wooden trestles. Old iron trestle bridge in middle distance at left, rusty iron girders, flat-bed truck on deck. Brick factory building at top right, trees and willows, Yarra River gully.