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Moorabool Viaduct @ Moorabool, Victoria, AUS.

The 440-metre (1,440 ft) long bluestone and iron Moorabool Viaduct was opened in 1862 to carry the Geelong-Ballarat railway over the river valley. It remains in use today, having been reinforced with extra steel piers in 1918, to a design of Victorian Railways engineer Frederick Esling.

Located specifically at 38.0899° S, 144.2847° E if you’re engineering- or GPS-inclined.The viaduct, at 180,000 quid with its 10 spans of 40 metres each, and massive bluestone piers, seems to have been comparatively trouble-free. Likewise, reinforcement works with steel trestle piers, in 1918, to accommodate larger locos and in the process create a dauntingly leviathan structure across the Moorabool Valley.

Engineering infrastructure was crucial to early Geelong’s growth, and the Geelong-Ballarat line was the first main trunk line beyond the Geelong-Melbourne line. The overall Melbourne-Ballarat route, via North Geelong, was selected for having the least gradients.