The Paringa Bridge carries the Sturt Highway across the

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in Paringa, South Australia. Until 1982, it also carried the Barmera railway line. The bridge consists of a vertical-lift span long which can rise in one and a half minutes. There are three Pratt truss spans of , and a plate girder span at each end. It was designed by the

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(SAR) and fabricated by Perry Engineering of

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. It opened on 31 January 1927. It was built as a road-rail bridge with both the Sturt Highway and Barmera railway lines using the same reservation.Paringa Bridge
South Australia Heritage Places Maintenance cost were shared equally between the SAR and Highways department. Subsequently, road lanes were added on either side to segregate the road and rail traffic. The last train crossed the bridge on 21 May 1982 with the line beyond Renmark formally closed on 7 March 1984. The railway tracks were removed in 1986 and the centre reservation converted to a shared pedestrian and cycle path. The vertical-lift span is opened twice a day for river traffic.Paringa Bridge lifting span operational again for River Murray traffic
Department of Planning, Transport & Infrastructure 30 May 2015 The bridge was listed as a State Heritage Place on the

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on 29 June 1989.

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