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Date: 1894-6 Type: Railway Bridge Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°46'09.05" S 28°50'34.5" E Alt: 1558m

Move down >> the old NZASM line to the next bridge View all the NZASM South Eastern Line Bridges Groot Spruit Bridge lies south of Greylingstad and north of Val. The original sandstone piers which once carried two flanking plate girder bridges of 15m spans between the bank abutments and central piers with a central fish-belly plate girder bridge of 20m span. In the Anglo-Boer War in the Great Retreat of February to September of 1900 it was blown up by the NZASM blasting experts who had previously served with the Corps of Engineers of the Netherlands army, but by July of that year repaired by the ROYAL ENGINEERS. The original girders have been replaced but the sandstone piers are incorporated into the present double-track railway bridge, the line was doubled with matching concrete piers alongside the sandstone. All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. Books that reference NZASM South-Eastern Line Bridge over the Groot Spruit De Jong, RC, Van der Waal, GM & Heydenrych, DH. 1988. NZASM 100 : 1887-1899, the buildings, steam engines and structures of the Netherlands South African Railway Company. Pretoria: C. Van Rensburg Publications on behalf of the Human Sciences Research Council. pg 195, 196, 232