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The Gisborne Photo News

 

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Over She Goes!

What was left of the old Reay Bridge over the Te Arai river on the way to Waingake made a spectacular series of pictures for the "Photo News" camera one morning last month, when the last of the two big trusses which carried the bridge was collapsed into the stream.

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County workmen climb on front of truck to counter-balance heavy beam being lifted over side of new concrete structure which replaced old bridge.

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Remaining truss was pulled over by winch and wire rope. In the first picture it is just '"starting to go". Within a couple of seconds it was reduced to a tangled mass of broken beams and twisted steel in the bed of the river.
"She's away!"

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Well off the vertical

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Sideways on, truss buckles as it falls

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Spray flies as it hits the water

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Heavy beams splintered to matchwood

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Watching workmen reflect: "Now all we have to do is clean up the mess...."