Paringa Bridge
There is a bridge here which takes a dual carriageway over the canal.
| Katarapko Creek (northern entrance) | 54.14 km | |
| Bookpurnong Lock No 4 | 51.03 km | |
| Berri Bridge | 41.07 km | |
| Lyrup Ferry | 28.33 km | |
| Renmark Lock No 5 | 1.45 km | |
| Paringa Bridge | ||
| Reedy Creek Entrance | 0.85 km | |
| Renmark | 3.98 km | |
| Mundagunda Creek Entrance | 5.30 km | |
| Woolshed Brewery Entrance | 41.63 km | |
| Chowella Creek Entrance | 51.12 km | |
Built in 1926. Sturt Highway, liftspan bridge, one lane of traffic each way with pedestrian/bike path in the middle on the former railway alignment.
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Wikipedia has a page about Paringa Bridge
The Paringa Bridge carries the Sturt Highway across the Murray River in Paringa, South Australia. Until 1982, it also carried the Barmera railway line.
The bridge consists of a vertical-lift span 78 feet (24 m) long which can rise 30 feet (9.1 m) in one and a half minutes. There are three Pratt truss spans of 112.5 feet (34.3 m), and a plate girder span at each end. It was designed by the South Australian Railways (SAR) and fabricated by Perry Engineering of Adelaide. 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. 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.
The bridge was listed as a State Heritage Place on the South Australian Heritage Register on 29 June 1989.