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The Brooklyn Bridge is a local nickname for the Hawkesbury River Road Bridge, a concrete girder bridge that carries the Pacific Motorway (M1) across the Hawkesbury River between Kangaroo Point and Mooney Mooney Point, located 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.
The Hawkesbury River railway bridge is a heritage-listed railway bridge in New South Wales, Australia that carries the Main North railway line across the Hawkesbury River. The bridge crosses between Brooklyn on the northern outskirts of Sydney and Cogra Bay in the Central Coast region. The railway bridge was to be the last link in a railway ...
"Hawkesbury River" was the original platform name when the station opened in 1887 but the nomenclature varied over the following twenty years with the names "Flat Rock", "Brooklyn" and "Hawkesbury" all being used until the final change in 1906 to Hawkesbury River. Peat's Ferry Post Office opened on 1 January 1874 and was renamed Brooklyn in ...
Looking north-east across the Hawkesbury River, with Dangar Island to the right of the image. Looking south-east across the Hawkesbury River, from near Brooklyn. The headwaters of the Hawkesbury River, the Avon River, the Cataract River, and the Cordeaux River, rise only a few kilometres (miles) from the sea, about 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Sydney.
The station was opened as Peats Ferry, renamed Brooklyn (1888), Hawkesbury River (1889), Hawkesbury (1890), finally reverting to Hawkesbury River in October 1906. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Reflecting the confusion in the timetables, the station was known locally as Peats Ferry , Flat Rock , and Brooklyn in the early years, depending on whom one spoke to.
Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge as seen from the bridge construction site on Long Island Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge as seen from a cave on Long Island. The Main North railway line from Sydney passes through a tunnel on the eastern end of the island, which is joined to Brooklyn by a railway causeway across Sandbrook Inlet, and to Cogra Point on the northern shore of the Hawkesbury River by ...
Dangar Island is a forested island, 30.8 hectares (76 acres) in area, [5] in the Hawkesbury River, on the northern outskirts of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Dangar Island is a suburb of Hornsby Shire and as at the 2021 census had a population of 313, which swells dramatically during holiday seasons.
The Brooklyn Bridge on the left carries the Pacific Motorway (M1), as they both cross the Hawkesbury River Coordinates 33°32′19″S 151°11′57″E / 33.5385°S 151.1993°E / -33.5385; 151