The Mfolozi River rail bridge

摘要

The 1929 bridge withstood all floods, many of which could be considered of major extent, until the advent of cyclone Domoina during the last days of January 1984. The design life of bridges as required by the SA Transport Services (now Transnet) Bridge Code is 120 years. The railway bridge had reached nearly half of this theoretical life and could therejore, in view of the extraordinary nature of the Domoina flood, be considered to have achieved its design purpose.