Paringa is a small town in the Riverland of South Australia, 17 kilometres (11 miles) from the border with Victoria.

[4]: 1‑926, 1‑927  Initially it extended 156 kilometres (97 miles) from Tailem Bend to Meribah, in the Brown's Well district, in mid-1913 as planned.

[7] The railway closed in 1990 but the bridge continues to carry the Sturt Highway as part of the main road link between Adelaide and Sydney.

The Paringa bridge was designed to carry a single railway line in the centre and a road lane on each side of it.

It is a service centre for the large agricultural enterprises on the Murtho and Lindsay Point roads and has a pub, general store, museum and antiques shop.