Somerset Bridge

Visiting

If you want to see the bridge open, skip the road and take the steps at the east end, which drop from a small car park to a lawn and picnic tables beside the channel. A passer-by does the lifting, so a sailor working single-handed waits at the cut until somebody obliges. The water beneath now carries boat tours more than working craft, and an hour at the rail can pass with nothing coming through at all. The Railway Trail's last paved section begins here, runs below Fort Scaur with the Great Sound open to the north, and finishes about three kilometres on at the old station in Somerset Village.