Petrov's Bridge

Petrov's Bridge
Petrov's Bridge in October 2009
Coordinates	35°23′19″S 149°10′29″E / 35.388719°S 149.174607°E / -35.388719; 149.174607
Carried	Bombala railway line
Locale	Hume
Official name	Arnott Street Railway Bridge
Other name(s)	Petrov's Bridge
Named for	Vladimir Petrov
Characteristics
Material	Wood
Total length	2 metes
Height	3.8 metres
Clearance below	3.7 metres
History
Opened	1887
Destroyed	2018
Closed	1989
Location

Arnott Street Railway Bridge (Petrov's Bridge) was a small, isolated railway bridge in Canberra, most famously used by soviet agent Vladimir Petrov in 1954 as a dead drop location for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). The bridge was used as part of the Bombala railway line before it was demolished in 2018.

Petrov's Bridge also less commonly refers to the bridge Petrov revealed as a Soviet dead drop site, a different bridge along the Bombala railway line a few miles from Canberra station.^[1]