What will the new bridge look like?

14 April 2017

Orange residents are finding out more about the design of the new bridge to be built over the railway line on Peisley Street / Forest Road.

** There will be a new single lane bridge over the Broken Hill rail line, built on the eastern side of the existing bridge (which will be kept) with a two metre gap between them.

** The new bridge will become a single lane for southbound traffic. The older bridge will become the single lane for northbound traffic.

** There will be a 2.5 metre wide shared cycleway-footpath on the eastern side of the new bridge.

** Currently the old bridge is 9.5 metres wide and 19.4 metres long. The new bridge will be 12 metres wide and will be 30.9 metres long, as it will cover a wider section of railway track.

** Both traffic lanes will be able to carry heavy vehicles up to B-Doubles. Currently B-doubles have an 8 kilometre diversion around the site when they want to cross the railway line at Forest Road.

** The new structure will have 2.65 metre high ‘anti-throw screens’ installed to prevent someone on the bridge dropping items onto the rail tracks.

** The project will see about 2,600 cubic metres of clean fill and around 1,000 cubic metres of concrete brought to the site. This would bring a maximum of 13 heavy vehicles to the site each day along Peisley Street.