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Goodna footbridge - an amazing structure to replace a QGR standard footbridge UP from Goodna. Used to access Goodna State school particularly from river side of Goodna.
Here is the old footbridge, May 2011.
Upgrading the Ipswich Motorway meant the footbridge had to be replaced. In the background can be seen the footbridge to access Goodna railway station from St Ives side under construction.
Sign on the Woogaroo Street side.
The old footbridge was removed and construction started on the new bridge. A shuttle bus was provided for the locals as needed.
This was going to be quite a structure!
Work proceeded in concert with the motorway upgrade. The Goodna State School is behind the wall on the right.
The double mainline Ipswich line. Carries a lot of tonnage due to coal traffic, as well as the Citytrain services and some other freight and the Westlander.
DOWN service SMU.
Works proceeding. Sept 2011.
See the beams? Some of the largest ever poured.
Bogdan Gregory, Australian Precast Solutions Precast Manager, said, “These two bridge beams are the longest we’ve produced at our Macksville precast facility and I’m not aware of any longer ones being produced elsewhere."
UP service. Trusty EMUs.
I took this photograph from the Goodna railway station footbridge. Looking in the UP direction (towards Ipswich).
View from UP train.
Taking shape. The ramps look as though you drive a Centurion tank up them ..
From river side. November 2011
From school side
Nearing completion. May 2012.
July 2012.
Huge pedestrian bridge.
On the ramps.
Up Citytrain ...
DOWN Emu
EMU 06 running as a 3 car service.
Plenty of protection.
From the Queensland Times @qld_times
26th May 2012 page 20 and 21
Colour-coded bridges along motorway tell tale of a city
Page 21
Steam hauled Brisbane suburban train travelling to Ipswich seen here near Goodna.
G Cope.
flickr.com/photos/3253632…
This is roughly were the footbridge is now.
B18-1/4 last two engines in service were N°770 at Mackay and N°842 at Ipswich. SX sets.
Interesting fact. The railway line to Beaudesert was first surveyed from Goodna to Beaudesert. Locals thought the option to Logan Village and Bethania was better.
The Queenslander Sat 3 Sep 1881 Page 308 Railway Meeting.
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/arti…
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