Wonthaggi Branch - Bridge Number 3

Wonthaggi Branch Bridge Number 3. Located 6.26km from Nyora. I have now made four attempts to reach this bridge, to no avail. It is located close to the South Gippsland Highway on a dairy property. While it is out in the open, I cannot get anyone to answer the door at the farmhouse so I can get permission to walk onto their property to photograph it. It is important to get permission, as people in this area are mostly against the proposed rail trail being built and might get a bit upset if they see you wandering around with a camera.

They also have a fairly large dairy herd that is always close to the house and therefore also the bridge. As I can see with my telescope that it is yet another concrete culvert style bridge, I have decided to give it a miss, and not try to photograph it.

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As can be seen by the following comments, I received a message from a kind lady who offered to take some recent photos of the *missing* bridge. I won't identify her out of respect for her privacy, but it seems that I was approaching the wrong farmhouse each time I visited the site, it is her farm that is closest to the bridge. 

As a further surprise, my previous observation that the bridge construction was a concrete culvert was also very wrong, it is a an excellent example of a small timber trestle, in very good condition.

I have since received a number of photos of the bridge, and very nice photos they are. Thank you to the anonymous contributor.

Looking North towards South Gippsland Highway across bridge deck.

The bridge appears to be 6 or 7 openings and is in remarkably good condition. 

Evidence of work on the bridge in October 1966.

View to the South-East, 6 openings.

View to the South West

Northern end of bridge approach.

Bridge transom placed in 1931

Southern end of bridge looking North.