Thread: Where am I? Competition.

Ok I'll be out for much of the day but I'll leave you with this abandoned broad gauge railway bridge, once again north of Adelaide.

Hi,
We passed there after camping at Red Banks, out of Burra on the way to Morgan.

It is about 100m to the right of the Burra-Morgan Rd.

Nice masonary with no rail lines.


Cheers

Originally Posted by HUE166

Mr utey got in first with Forrest. Well done.
Your turn.

I have landed there for fuel. Very good runway. I think QANTAS still use it for training. All that was there was the refuelled and his wife and roo shooter. We nearly broke down there. Didn't like our chances of getting a cold beer.

Originally Posted by carlschmid2002

I have landed there for fuel. Very good runway. I think QANTAS still use it for training. All that was there was the refuelled and his wife and roo shooter. We nearly broke down there. Didn't like our chances of getting a cold beer.

There is usually a good chance of a cold beer at Forrest. It just depends who is looking after it. The caretakers head out there for +- 12 month shifts. I have done a bit of work based out of Forrest and have always been well looked after. The runway is maintained to its high standard as it is the only alternative to Perth International if there is weather preventing flights landing at Perth. For that reason Qantas and other airlines make sure their flight crew are all familiar with it. There's always avgas or Jet A1 available. I always plan to stay there for the night if I'm ferrying across the country.

Great spot!

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
We passed there after camping at Red Banks, out of Burra on the way to Morgan.

It is about 100m to the right of the Burra-Morgan Rd.

Nice masonary with no rail lines.


Cheers

Well I'm going to say that looks very much like the right bridge, although your described location is about 30km out. What is the name of the river that the bridge crosses?

Hi,
you are correct, I am about 30 km out, it was on the previous day at about 3:59 pm and we had yet to camp at Red Banks.

It is on the Jamestown - Burra Rd

the picture file date is 3:59 pm, which according to our gps track is the Channel River feeding into the Bundaleer Reservoir.

Unfortunately the gps tag on the camera didn't record.

Cheers

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
you are correct, I am about 30 km out, it was on the previous day at about 3:59 pm and we had yet to camp at Red Banks.

It is on the Jamestown - Burra Rd

the picture file date is 3:59 pm, which according to our gps track is the Channel River feeding into the Bundaleer Reservoir.

Unfortunately the gps tag on the camera didn't record.

Cheers

I think I'll let you off for that, the bridge is about 2km SSE of Spalding just north of the Hill River Rd junction. The river is the Broughton River which flows out to sea near Port Pirie. It's a typical river of this region, normally nearly dry but occasionally rips out all but the best bridges. There are two previous bridges near this location on a tributary. The pic shows the abutments with the modern highway bridge in the background. I'm standing on the edge of an old road bridge that's been bypassed by the newest one.


https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.516.../data=!3m1!1e3

The google map link should give you an aerial view of the rail bridge and a street view too if you zoom in and mess about.

Over to you.

Hi
Sticking to railway themes....



cheers