A story about a bridge
Jul. 25th, 2005 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithThe lawyer joke reminded me of something.
I was out Longford with a friend a couple of months ago looking for the route the cars used to race around. That they did was about all I could remember, other than the road that lead down to the river, the pub on the corner with the car through the window and a bridge were somehow invovled.
Turns out that pub has walls full of info about the race, the Australian Grand Prix, held through the streets of & around Longford from about 1954 to 1968. But this is a story of a bridge, not the racing, interesting as that is.
The road we were on ends at the river. From there a walking track heads off down to the mill dam. I thought there was connection between the end of the road & a bridge involved with the race track so we wandered along the walking track to have a look. No plaque (seems they redid the path about 7 years ago) and the only bridge we saw was the railway bridge that we walked under, which was obviously not old enough.
A metal truss bridge. It'd be what? 50 years old, if that.
Or maybe not....
From another site, it was built in 1871 and was part of the first railway line in Tasmania. So quite old as railway bridges go.
So what's the connection between that and the lawyer joke? It's obvious, really.
I was out Longford with a friend a couple of months ago looking for the route the cars used to race around. That they did was about all I could remember, other than the road that lead down to the river, the pub on the corner with the car through the window and a bridge were somehow invovled.
Turns out that pub has walls full of info about the race, the Australian Grand Prix, held through the streets of & around Longford from about 1954 to 1968. But this is a story of a bridge, not the racing, interesting as that is.
The road we were on ends at the river. From there a walking track heads off down to the mill dam. I thought there was connection between the end of the road & a bridge involved with the race track so we wandered along the walking track to have a look. No plaque (seems they redid the path about 7 years ago) and the only bridge we saw was the railway bridge that we walked under, which was obviously not old enough.
A metal truss bridge. It'd be what? 50 years old, if that.
Or maybe not....
From another site, it was built in 1871 and was part of the first railway line in Tasmania. So quite old as railway bridges go.
So what's the connection between that and the lawyer joke? It's obvious, really.
