It was a single track lattice truss bridge designed by John Whitton, the Chief Engineer of the New South Wales Government Railways.

The pipeline was supported on new steel outriggers cantilevered from the main girders.

This bridge was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 15 November 2002.

[4] To relieve the bottleneck, in 1969, the New South Wales Government commissioned John Holland & Co to build a new double track reinforced concrete bridge immediately to the west.

[6] On 28 January 1985, the rear car of a commuter train derailed on that bridge.