GC2BFQ1 Kerang Weir (Traditional Cache) in Victoria, Australia created by The Morris

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GC2BFQ1 ▼

A cache by The Morris Message this owner

Hidden : 7/9/2010

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An easy drive-by to showcase the new fish ladder at the weir in Kerang. As you turn off onto Weir Road you will pass Tragedy Bridge.

Tragedy Bridge on Pyramid Creek near its junction with the Loddon River just north of Kerang, is scientifically and historically significant at the State level. An attractive setting near the junction of Pyramid Creek with the Loddon River, on a quiet rural road running parallel to that river, adds to this bridge's significance. It is a very rare surviving representative example of a large all-timber shire road bridge, dating from 1927 and still in unusually authentic condition for a bridge of the early motor era. The technical-historical significance of the timber structure is enhanced by the tragic social history associated with its construction, which gives this bridge its memorable name.

This eleven-span all-timber road bridge was built when motor vehicles were first being taken into account by rural bridge engineers, and possesses all the features that one would expect from a shire bridge of the late 1920s, with remarkably little modification. The systematic squaring of the external faces of round stringers and Corbels, represents typical practice for the period of origin, as do the spiking planks over stringers and the transverse-timber deck with longitudinal running planks to accommodate motor vehicles. The bridge also retains traditional timber piers and abutments, timber gravel beams and timber side-rails in good condition. This is the only known substantial Victorian shire bridge which dates from the 1920s and retains such a wide range of typical period timber features with such integrity.

As its name implies, the bridge is also of considerable significance in the social history of the Kerang region. For many years it possessed a name plaque, bearing the words "Tragedy Bridge". That name referred to a tragic incident on the newly-built bridge deck, while the contractor was completing timber side-rails. Alleging that he was attacked by an aggressive rival bearing an adze, the contractor retaliated, with fatal results. The bridge name has taken on further sombre meaning, by association with later drownings.

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