NSW-Bridge Over the Nepean River at Penrith.

Scarce c.19th engraving of the Victoria Bridge, Nepean River at Penrith.

Victoria Bridge was designed by the Engineer-in-Chief of Railways in NSW, John Whitton and checked in Britain by his brother-in-law and renowned railway engineer, Sir John Fowler. Victoria Bridge was designed to carry two railway tracks as it was intended that the road on the bridge be only a temporary arrangement. The flood of 1860 that had carried off the previous bridge influenced Whitton to raise the bridge deck by two metres after witnessing the power of previous high flood waters.