Editing Victoria Bridge, Brisbane (section)

== 1897 Victoria Bridge ==
[[File:BrisbaneCombinationTramVictoriaBridge1906.jpg|thumb|Early electric tram at the northern end of the second permanent Victoria Bridge, c. 1906|left]]
[[File:StateLibQld 1 101716.jpg|thumb|Victoria Bridge from the north-western side, 1933]]
[[File:View of the William Street end of the Victoria Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, ca. 1910.jpg|thumb|William Street end of the Victoria Bridge, circa 1910|left]]
[[File:View of the second Victoria Bridge in Brisbane, 1954.jpg|thumb|Victoria Bridge from the north-eastern side with the [[William Street retaining wall|Queens Wharf Road retaining wall]] in the foreground, 1954]]
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Another replacement bridge was built and entered service in 1897,<ref>{{cite news|date=25 June 1897|title=Opening Victoria Bridge.|volume=XLIII|page=13|newspaper=[[The Week (Brisbane)|The Week]]|issue=1,122|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article190515596|access-date=15 February 2021|via=National Library of Australia|archive-date=3 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303235653/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/190515596|url-status=live}}</ref> lasting until 1969, when it was demolished.<ref name="bhnb" /> This second bridge was designed by [[Alfred Barton Brady]]. It was constructed of steel and wrought iron (superstructure),<ref>Brady's drawing number 5,  "Elevation of W.I. parapet" in {{Cite QSA Item|328500|Architectural plans}}</ref> cast iron (structure) and stone (abutments and wing walls - purple hard stone/porphyry, brown freestone and Portland cement)<ref>"Portrait of a bridge. Ephemeral silhouettes of Brisbane's Victoria Bridge" by Daria Gomez Gane (c) 2008 - in preparation</ref> and had two carriage ways and two footpaths.<ref name="lhbris" /> As early as 1943 evidence of the bridge buckling from the weight of increased traffic was noticed.  Tram numbers on the bridge had to be restricted and cars limited to the outer lanes as a result.<ref name="shap 2">{{cite book |title=Shaping a city |last=Cole |first=John R.  |year=1984 |publisher=William Brooks Queensland |location=[[Albion, Queensland|Albion]], Queensland |isbn=0-85568-619-7 |pages=162 }}</ref>

A portion of the [[Victoria Bridge Abutment|southern abutment of the previous bridge]] remains adjacent to the current bridge, including a pedestrian arch, a short remnant of [[Trams in Brisbane|tram]] track and a memorial to [[Hector Vasyli]], a young boy who was killed in a traffic accident at that point when waving to servicemen returning from the [[World War I|First World War]]. The abutment is heritage-listed.
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