Severn River (New South Wales)

Severn River in Dundee

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The Severn River is a river in the north of the Australian state of New South Wales. It rises in the Northern Tablelands of New England at Dundee north of the city of Glen Innes. It flows east from Ashford to the northwest to Pindari Dam and then on. Kwiambal through the National Park, where it flows into the Macintyre River

Its main tributaries are Beardy Waters and Welling Grove Creek.

The entire river is known as a good fishing waters. In the Severn River usually spawn cod perch Maccullochella peelii and Macquaria ambigua.

A particularly rare plant, the Myrtle family Micromyrtus grandis (English Severn River Heath- myrtle ), one finds endemic in the Severn River Nature Reserve and adjacent lands at Pindari Dam, about 60 km north west of Glen Innes.

The railway bridge over the Severn River is located six kilometers west-southwest of Dundee and is not longer used as part of the old Northern Line in New South Wales, but is one of the National Heritage of Australia. This bridge consists of wood trusses, was completed in 1886 and, with 15 bridge sections 159 m long. At that time it was the longest timber truss bridge in Australia.

The northern river of the same name in Queensland this Severn River has nothing to do. The naming of the two rivers with the same name is due to different explorers who acted independently of each other.