at Vickers Ruwolt's Burnley works, probably one of the largest structures to be erected in this fashion. The bridge was clearly seen as a landmark and complementary to the Hume Dam itself in terms of national pride and potential tourist value. The State Rivers documented the bridge's construction and produced a series of lantern slides showing progress. A number of hand coloured slides and images were produced of the finished bridge to show it at its most impressive. The Victorian Railways also produced its own series of photographs in the 1940s and 50s presenting the bridge as part of a dramatic landscape and engineering achievement, probably for promoting tourist visits(by train) to the region. The bridge has been included in several Postcard series of the natural and man-made features of Albury in the 1950s and 60s under titles such as A Souvenir of Beautiful Albury. The bridge was constructed at a cost of A£194,000210,000. The approach span on the New South Wales side was constructed in 1963 as part of the upgrading of the Hume Dam. The town of Bellbridge at the southern end of the bridge, was created to replace facilities inundated by the reservoir. The bridge is currently managed by River Murray Water, although it is understood that the RTA, VicRoads and River Murray Water are negotiating on the future management responsibility for the bridge. A current load limit applies and recent tenders have been advertised for the cleaning and repainting of the bridge. Description The Bethanga Bridge is a road bridge over a flooded section of a Murray River valley that now forms part of the Hume Dam. The bridge consists of nine spans of , each span being supported between double reinforced concrete pylons by a riveted steel camel back Pratt truss plus a approach span on the New South Wales side. The overall span is . The road deck was initially timber but was replaced in 1961 with the current concrete waffle slab deck. The road deck is wide. In 1961 the bridge deck and truss structure was also raised by in response to the upgrading of Hume Dam and works to increase the storage capacity of the dam. In 2005 the waffle slab decking was replaced to raise their load capacity, new guard rails were installed and the NSW approach to the bridge was widened for safety reasons. These 2005 works were undertaken with