Hawkesbury River Railroad Bridge — Attraction in Mooney Mooney

Stop at the bridge on every jet ski jet trek, or boating adventure usually on the sunny side for great photos. It’s 12 metres deep to drop the boat anchor but with an electric winch makes life easy. Being into model HO scale trains and 5” gauge miniature railway seeing the 1:1 scale passenger or freight is a great hit. The bridge looks so much massive compared with the trains. The old 1889 bridge piers are still in place. Great history on wiki. Use TripView App or TrainLink data to see when then passenger trains cross.

A slightly better place to view the trains in up a bit into Mullet Creek where the train come out from the tunnel and bush along the waters edge. Trains can be heard coming onto the bridge from the south and can be seen coming down from Wondabyne end of...

A remarkable feat of engineering for the time it was constructed. The current bridge is in fact the second built following the original single line one of the mid 1880's. The sandstone pylons of the original are still located on the downstream side. The mind boggles at the difficulties of the overall initial project which replaced a section of travel by ferry on Broken Bay. It was not until the long Woy Woy tunnel was built that the full rail journey could be made. Well worth reading the information available on the historic feats performed by our forefathers at the time. Just remember there were no tolls on the road bridge...

This bridge carries the main Northern line across the Hawkesbury River at Brooklyn. Something of an engineering marvel due to the depth of the river at this point and the deep silt covering the bedrock underneath. It can be difficult to get a clear view from land, you’ll either need to get out in a boat or walk the Great North Walk up towards Cowan for a few km to...