The timber trestle bridge was built in 1915 at the Orbost end of the Bairnsdale-Orbost railway line. At one time, the line had many trestle bridges over its 100-kilometer (62-mile) length, but many have been lost over time. The Snowy River Floodplain Railway Bridges are two sequential and exceptionally long and low timber railway bridges across the Snowy River floodplain. They measure 770 meters (2,526 feet) and 183 meters (600 feet) long, and make up the state’s longest timber rail bridge. Most of these bridges have now gone and those…
