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The railway service to Belmont was suspended in 1926 following floods. [13] Consideration of closing the railway had been publicly discussed as early as 1930. There was a proposal to convert the rail bridge over the Swan River to a road bridge, however this never happened. Instead, the Garratt Road Bridge opened nearby in 1935. [14] [15]
Narrows Bridge. The Narrows Bridge is a freeway and railway crossing of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia.. Made up of two road bridges and a railway bridge constructed at a part of the river known as the Narrows, located between Mill Point and Point Lewis, it connects the Mitchell and Kwinana freeways, linking the city's northern and southern suburbs.
Canning River: Also a railway bridge Narrows Bridge: 397 m (1,302 ft) Perth – South Perth: Kwinana Freeway: Swan River: Three parallel bridges; also a railway bridge Riverton Bridge: 100 m (330 ft) Riverton – Wilson
Just south of there, the railway crosses the Swan River on the Narrows Bridge, where the Mitchell Freeway changes name to the Kwinana Freeway. [131] From the Narrows Bridge, the railway travels along the median of the Kwinana Freeway, parallel to the shore of the Swan and Canning rivers.
In 1886, a branch line opened in Bayswater to the Swan River foreshore near Ascot Racecourse (known then as Perth Racecourse). [16] The South Western Railway between Perth and Bunbury opened on 2 May 1893. [11] [17] On 21 February 1896, a 20-kilometre (12 mi) new route for the Eastern Railway between Midland Junction and Mount Helena via Swan ...
Following the settlement of the Swan River Colony in 1829, the Swan River was the main transportation link between Perth and the port of Fremantle. [1] Land transportation was difficult as the only river crossing near Perth, a ford at the eastern end of the town, was often impassable for wagons and carts.
Fremantle Railway Bridge (known also as the North Fremantle Bridge) is a railway bridge on the Fremantle railway line that crosses the Swan River between Fremantle and North Fremantle. It is the third structure with that name.
Bunbury Bridge was a single-track, timber railway bridge in East Perth in Western Australia. The bridge crossed the Swan River near Claise Brook and was built for passenger and freight traffic to Bunbury on the South Western Railway. Originally called Swan Bridge, [1] it was built in 1892 by Atkins and Law. [2]