Indooroopilly Bridge v1.0
The Walter Taylor Bridge is a heritage-listed suspension bridge crossing the Brisbane River between Indooroopilly and Chelmer in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is shared by motor traffic and pedestrians and is the only habitable bridge in the Southern Hemisphere.
The bridge was conceived, designed, built and funded by local visionary Walter Taylor. It is a suspension bridge and the support cables were actually surplus cables used to hold up the incomplete halves of the Sydney Harbour Bridge during its construction. When the bridge opened it had the longest span of any suspension bridge in Australia.
The bridge was opened on 14 February 1936 by the Governor of Queensland, Sir Leslie Wilson, with the final cost (anchorage to anchorage) coming to £85,000. The bridge was operated as a toll bridge until the 1960s, with a toll collection booth located at the Northern (Indooroopilly) end. During that time, the bridge was known as the “Indooroopilly Toll Bridge”.
After Walter Taylor’s death in 1955, the bridge was renamed the Walter Taylor Bridge in his honour in 1956.
This is my custom Walter Taylor Bridge model that took me just over 2 weeks to build. I removed the existing bridge that was there including the brick supports under it as the Walter Taylor doesn’t have or need them being a suspension bridge. This is not a perfect model, I used photos and Google Street view as the reference, so everything is guess work. I’ve had to scale the detail back a bit (I originally planned to do all the railings and guardrails, but decided they weren’t important enough for this project) and there have been a few comprimises (it’s difficult to find high res photos of some parts of it) but for the most part it’s a very accurate representation of the Walter Taylor Bridge and I’m extremely happy with it.
This is currently only the 1 bridge at Indooroopilly. I will be adding the other 3 bridges in future versions.
GPS Coordinates: -27.505635, 152.973646
