The Detail Structure Under The Harbour Bridge
by Miroslava Jurcik
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The Detail Structure Under The Harbour Bridge
Artist
Miroslava Jurcik
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Photograph - Photograph
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The detail structure under the famous Harbour Bridge in Sydney Harbour taken on the way home from 2nd day of the International Navy Fleet Review In 2013. What surprise me was actually that I find out that they have nets under some path ways.
One of Australia's well-known celebrities, Paul Hogan, was once part of a workforce virtually permanently employed repainting the Bridge, in that they started another coat of paint after finishing the last.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge construction started in 1924 and took 1,400 men eight years to build at a cost of 4.2 million. Six million hand driven rivets and 53,000 tonnes of steel were used in its construction. It now carries eight traffic lanes and two rail lines, one in each direction, but at the time of its construction the two eastern lanes were tram tracks. They were converted to road traffic when Sydney closed down its tram system in the 1950s.
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July 10th, 2015
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