Gallery of log for Bridges to nowhere
We found this abandoned bridge while looking for a GC cache placed in the vicinity. No road leading to it, but some car tracks in the mud underneath and a nearby outside lounge made of pallets suggested people still come here.
Here is the information given in the cache.
GC1Mo5V: Bridge to Nowhere.
Step back in time, to the period of construction of the F3 freeway. But more particularly the temporary highway between Central Mangrove and Ourimbah.Peats Ridge Road itself was constructed purposely by the DMR to take the National Highway 1 shield (then National Route 1) as the main route between Sydney & Newcastle. However, it was not given the NH1 shield until the arrival of federal funding via the National Highway system in 1974. Prior to this, the route was signposted as either 'Newcastle via Peats Ridge' or 'Sydney via Peats Ridge'.
Peats Ridge Rd carried the steadily increasing expressway traffic for 22 years (12 years as NH1) until the 7km shorter expressway route (F3) between Calga and Somersby opened to traffic. Some of the original route was retained, the 7km between Somersby and Ourimbah was duplicated and incorporated into the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway. National Highway 1 was removed from Peats Ridge Rd in December 1986, however signage remained along the expressway section well into 2004. State Route 36, which originally terminated at Peats Ridge Rd was extended east to meet the newly opened expressway (F3) in December 1986 however signage only appeared on the freeway itself. It seems no-one told Peats Ridge Rd that it was now SR36.
Between Central Mangrove and Ourimbah, an entirely new alignment was chosen and this was constructed to a 60mph (100km/h) design standard with no at-grade cross traffic. A practicable route across the Mooney Mooney Creek & Gorge was found in 1965, leaving the Peats Ridge route redundant as a through route to Newcastle. Ultimately the route across Mooney mooney Creek came in a slightly steeper, more expesive form, also a decade later than expected, opening to traffic in December 1986.
Construction of Peats Ridge Rd itself was commenced in 1960 and opened to traffic in March 1964
Here is the information given in the cache.
GC1Mo5V: Bridge to Nowhere.
Step back in time, to the period of construction of the F3 freeway. But more particularly the temporary highway between Central Mangrove and Ourimbah.Peats Ridge Road itself was constructed purposely by the DMR to take the National Highway 1 shield (then National Route 1) as the main route between Sydney & Newcastle. However, it was not given the NH1 shield until the arrival of federal funding via the National Highway system in 1974. Prior to this, the route was signposted as either 'Newcastle via Peats Ridge' or 'Sydney via Peats Ridge'.
Peats Ridge Rd carried the steadily increasing expressway traffic for 22 years (12 years as NH1) until the 7km shorter expressway route (F3) between Calga and Somersby opened to traffic. Some of the original route was retained, the 7km between Somersby and Ourimbah was duplicated and incorporated into the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway. National Highway 1 was removed from Peats Ridge Rd in December 1986, however signage remained along the expressway section well into 2004. State Route 36, which originally terminated at Peats Ridge Rd was extended east to meet the newly opened expressway (F3) in December 1986 however signage only appeared on the freeway itself. It seems no-one told Peats Ridge Rd that it was now SR36.
Between Central Mangrove and Ourimbah, an entirely new alignment was chosen and this was constructed to a 60mph (100km/h) design standard with no at-grade cross traffic. A practicable route across the Mooney Mooney Creek & Gorge was found in 1965, leaving the Peats Ridge route redundant as a through route to Newcastle. Ultimately the route across Mooney mooney Creek came in a slightly steeper, more expesive form, also a decade later than expected, opening to traffic in December 1986.
Construction of Peats Ridge Rd itself was commenced in 1960 and opened to traffic in March 1964
