Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Construction of the Illawarra Line and the Como Bridge
- In
- Fourth National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1988: Preprints of Papers
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers, Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 1988, pp. 123-129
- ISBN/ISSN
- 085825414X
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.624241210305381
- Abstract
Over one hundred years ago, a team of Surveyors, Engineers and Construction Contractors, undertook the construction of the Illawarra Railway including the Como Bridge. Technically, the construction was quite difficult as the railway traversed rocky, mountainous country, slashed by deep waterways and covered, by thick scrub and dense forest. However, overcoming these conditions were part of an Engineers capability and the Railway was completed in a reasonable time and at a fair price. Other players involved in the Railway's construction were the Politicians, taking advantage of inside knowledge to gain rich land grants. There were Businessmen, keen to make opportunities from Public Works, Real Estate people, determined to exploit the benefits of public infrastructure to the hilt and there were land holders who would do anything to attract this beneficial project onto their land. These political influences were every bit as hazardous as the natural topography, to the completion of the project.
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