Fullers Bridge, officially called the Fullers Creek Bridge, is a

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that carries Delhi Road to Millwood Avenue across the

Lane Cove River The Lane Cove River, a northern tributary of the Parramatta River, is a tide-dominated, drowned valley estuary west of Sydney Harbour, located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The river winds through a bushland valley and joins Parramatt ...

, in ,

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, New South Wales, Australia. The concrete beam bridge is located northwest of the Sydney central business district and connects Chatswood, New South Wales, Chatswood to North Ryde, New South Wales, North Ryde as part of the A38 (Sydney), A38. The main entrance to Lane Cove National Park is located adjacent to the western end of Fullers Bridge.

Description

Completed in 1918, Fullers Bridge is a six-Span (architecture), span structure, with four longitudinal deck beams on an over-vertical curve or camber. The beams have soffits which are parallel with the deck over most of their length, but curve down to the piers. The piers consist of two columns each supported by timber piles with pilecaps. The pier columns have a square core cross section with large chamfers, giving an octagonal appearance, with four tapered thickenings or buttresses. The deep headstock connecting the columns supports the four deck beams. The deck is continuous from one abutment to the other. On the upstream side of the deck a timber walkway has been installed, supported by steel cantilever beams connected under the edge of the deck. The original pipe handrails have been replaced by guardrailing. The bridge also supports utility pipes on its downstream side.

History

Fullers Bridge is named after the Fuller family which operated a farm on the small area of agriculturally usable land which existed on the river banks at that location, in the late 19th century. Up until the early 1980s a kiosk and general store existed on the northern side of the bridge, and was accessible from both sides of the river by the northern pedestrian footbridge. Fullers Bridge played a part in a famous Australian mystery, with the bodies of Bogle-Chandler case, Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler discovered on the banks of the Lane Cove River on 1 January 1963, south of the bridge.

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