Gladesville Bridge

E305892

Gladesville Bridge is a major concrete arch road bridge in Sydney, Australia, notable for carrying traffic across the Parramatta River and once being the longest concrete arch span in the world.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Gladesville Bridge canonical 3
Gladesville Concrete Arch Bridge 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf arch bridge
bridge in Australia
concrete bridge
road bridge
alsoKnownAs Gladesville Bridge
surface form: Gladesville Concrete Arch Bridge
builder Reinforced Concrete Constructions Pty Ltd
carries Victoria Road NERFINISHED
motor vehicles
six lanes of road traffic
clearanceBelow 36.6 metres
connects Drummoyne
Huntleys Point
country Australia
crosses Parramatta River
design open-spandrel arch
designer New South Wales Public Works Department
surface form: NSW Department of Public Works
engineer G. Maunsell & Partners
hasNearbySuburb Chiswick
Gladesville
Henley
hasToll no
heldRecordFor longest concrete arch span in the world
heritageListingDate 2013-06-25
heritageStatus listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register
length 579.4 metres
locatedIn New South Wales
Sydney
mainSpanLength 305 metres
maintainedBy Transport for NSW
material reinforced concrete
numberOfLanes 6
officialOpeningBy Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark
surface form: Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent
opened 1964
openingDate 1964-10-02
owner Government of New South Wales
partOf A40 route in Sydney
precededBy earlier Gladesville Bridge
recordEndYear 1971
recordStartYear 1964
relinquishedRecordTo Koblenz Bridge
replaced original 1881 Gladesville Bridge
replacesCrossingAt same Parramatta River crossing as 1881 bridge
structureType concrete arch
trafficType road traffic
wasWorldsLongestConcreteArchSpan true
width 22.9 metres

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Parramatta River hasCrossing Gladesville Bridge
Lane Cove River hasBridge Gladesville Bridge
Gladesville hasLandmark Gladesville Bridge
Gladesville Bridge alsoKnownAs Gladesville Bridge
this entity surface form: Gladesville Concrete Arch Bridge