The Sale Swing Bridge is located on Swing Bridge Drive near the South Gippsland Highway, Longford, 5 km south of the city of Sale, Victoria, Australia[2] and spans the Latrobe River at its junction with the Thomson River.

Its wrought-iron structure, 45 metres long, pivots on a set of nine cylindrical cast iron columns filled with concrete.

At its peak, the bridge was opened up to 20 times a day, allowing the movement of steamers between Sale and Melbourne.

By the late 20th century, increased traffic requirements, included traffic for the off-shore oil and gas industry, resulted in the need for a new section of the A440 South Gippsland Highway, with new high level concrete bridges, crossing both the Thompson and Latrobe rivers slightly upstream of the swing bridge.

Due to repeated traffic damage, the original criss-cross iron balustrade sections had been removed years beforehand.

Upon completion of refurbishment, the bridge was swung by hand by Ann Synan, great-great-granddaughter of gatekeeper Eliza Ball.

[8] In April 2017 vandals lodged a block of wood in the gear mechanism, causing an axle to bend and the bottom roller beam to crack.