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The Historic Dickabram Bridge stands 23m (70 feet) above the winding Mary River at Miva. This famous bridge, built by Mc Dermott and Owen, was completed on June 1, 1886. The bridge is just over 200m in length and is the only rail and road bridge built to its design in Queensland. The word Dickabram is Aboriginal for a type of yam that grew along the river flats there.
The cost of the bridge was $28,165.83 and there were at least three deaths during construction, the most sensational was the one when a man wheeling a barrow load of cement to tip into one of the four big steel cylinders must have wheeled his barrow over the edge, and he and his barrow fell into the wet cement.
A flood in 1893 is the only one that has risen over the decking. The bridge went a metre (3 foot) under. In 1955, when the river rose more than 22.6m (68feet) , water was splashing through the decking.

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