Sturt Highway - Bridges

Bridges

The Sturt Highway is named after Charles Sturt, who explored south western New South Wales, the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers and also parts of the deserts of central Australia in the 1820s and 1830s. The highway crosses the Murrumbidgee at Balranald having followed that river for much of the route from the Hume Highway, and crosses the Murray a total of four times:

• At Mildura over a high arched bridge
• At Paringa (near Renmark) over a lift-span bridge which used to have a railway through the middle as well as the road carriageway on each side
• At Kingston over a high bridge from an embankment on the right bank to the cliffs on the left bank
• At Blanchetown over another high bridge to cliffs on the right bank.