Johnston Street Bridge
Johnston Street Bridge is a concrete road bridge crossing the Yarra River between the Melbourne suburbs of Abbotsford and Kew. The current bridge was constructed in 1954-56 by the Country Roads Board using a design employing cast-in-place reinforced-concrete curved T girders and an integral flat slab deck.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Bridge
- Description: bridge in Australia
- Also known as: “Studley Park Road Bridge”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dights Falls and Abbotsford Convent.
Dights Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Michaelschmatz, Public domain.
Dights Falls is a rapid and weir on the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, just downstream of the junction with the Merri Creek. At this point the river narrows and is constricted between 800,000-year-old volcanic, basaltic lava flow and a much older steep, silurian, sedimentary spur. Dights Falls is situated 490 metres northwest of Johnston Street Bridge.
Abbotsford Convent
Photo: Redtree21, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Abbotsford Convent is located in Abbotsford, Victoria, an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The Convent is in a bend of the Yarra River west of Yarra Bend Park, with the Collingwood Children's Farm to its north and east, the river and parklands to its south and housing to its west. Abbotsford Convent is situated 250 metres south of Johnston Street Bridge.
Sophia Mundi Steiner School
School
Sophia Mundi Steiner School is a private school located in Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia, that follows Rudolf Steiner's educational philosophy. Schools which follow Rudolf Steiner's theories are known as Steiner schools, or Waldorf schools. Sophia Mundi Steiner School is situated 310 metres south of Johnston Street Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Inner east and Westgarth.
Inner east
Photo: Nicolás Boullosa, CC BY 2.0.
The inner east of Melbourne consists of a number of suburbs and localities within the Yarra municipality. Compared with glitzy Stonnington on the other side of the river, the inner eastern area is known among Melburnians as a working-class district, filled with pubs and old factories.
Westgarth
Neighborhood
Photo: Batterbu, Public domain.
Westgarth is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Northcote, about 4 or 5 kilometres north-east of Melbourne's central business district in Victoria, Australia.
Jolimont
Neighborhood
Jolimont is an unbounded neighbourhood of the suburb of East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Situated to the south east of the city's primary axis, Jolimont features parks, business precincts and a limited amount of residential accommodation. Jolimont is situated 2½ km southwest of Johnston Street Bridge.
Johnston Street Bridge
- Category: transportation
- Location: City of Yarra, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-37.80082° or 37° 48′ 3″ southLongitude
145.00418° or 145° 0′ 15″ eastElevation
20 metres (66 feet)Open location code
4RJ752X3+MMOpenStreetMap ID
way 977654104OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=bridge
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- Dutch: “Johnston Street Bridge”
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