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Translink is the public transport agency in the State of Queensland, Australia, and is a division of the Department of Transport and Main Roads.Translink was first introduced by the Queensland Government in June 2003 to orchestrate bus, ferry, rail and light rail services.
Bus Queensland was formed in April 2009 when the Pulitano Group purchased both the Garden City Sunbus and Kynoch Coaches operations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Kynoch Coaches was a family-owned business, previously owned by Jason Ward, operated urban, school and long-distance services from its base, in Stephen Street, Toowoomba.
The line west of Ipswich was duplicated to Wulkuraka in 1902 and to Grandchester (past Rosewood) in 1913. [ 3 ] The section from Roma Street to Corinda (11 km (6.8 mi) was quadruplicated in 1963, [ 4 ] and extended to Darra (a further 5 km (3.1 mi)) in 2011, which became the junction for the first section of the new Springfield line at that time.
Clifton railway station in 1897 Sydney Mail circa 1910 1901 crosses the Condamine River floodplain trestles on approach to Warwick station in 1987 1901 south of Warwick in 1987. The first section of the Southern railway opened from the end of the Main Line railway at Toowoomba to Millhill to the north of Warwick, on 9 January 1871, the line terminating there to save the cost of a bridge over ...
Mail train arriving at Chinchilla, 1908 Passenger train on the Bridge across Charley's Creek, Chinchilla during the 1921-22 floods Muckadilla station, between Roma and Mitchell, ~1920. The Western railway line is a narrow gauge (1,067 mm or 3 ft 6 in) railway, connecting the south-east and south-west regions of Queensland, Australia.
It junctions from the Southern line immediately south of Warwick station and proceeded westwards for a distance of 413 km to the town of Dirranbandi. [1] A western extension to Boomie in New South Wales, approved by the Queensland Parliament in 1914, was never constructed. The Thallon-to-Dirranbandi section was closed on 2 September 2010. [2]
Toowoomba is served by Queensland Rail Travel's twice weekly Westlander service travelling between Brisbane and Charleville. [2]Following the cessation of the Dirranbandi Mail in February 1993, the cessation of the Roma to Brisbane Rail motor in December 1993 and the diversion of The Westlander to call at Willowburn in August 1994, Toowoomba was served by no regular passenger services.
A14 281 in the locomotive sheds at Ipswich ~1890 Goods train at the Toowoomba railway station ~1890 Spring Bluff station, located on the Main Line between Ipswich and Toowoomba, 1891 Passenger train crossing Swanson's Bridge on the Main Line, ca. 1912. The original bridge was an iron girder designed in England and supplied by Sir Charles Fox ...