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M-75 runs parallel to the Boyne River until it turns west near the Boyne City Municipal Airport to enter the community of Boyne City on East Division Street. Two blocks further west, it meets C-73/East Jordan Road next to the Maple Lawn Cemetery. Next to the cemetery, the highway follows Boyne Avenue northwesterly into downtown.
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The Boyne Valley is a rural locality in Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] The locality contains four small towns: Nagoorin , Ubobo , Builyan , and Many Peaks . In the 2021 census , Boyne Valley had a population of 301 people.
The Dawes Range Tunnel section of the Boyne Burnett Inland Rail Trail was opened on 11 September 2021. The 26.28-kilometre (16.33 mi) section starts at Barrimoon Siding, Kalpowar and finishes at Builyan, Boyne Valley. [23] The trail passes through the historic township of Many Peaks.
The Rail Trail is currently open as far as the Railway siding at Builyan in the Boyne Valley with Free camp area, fresh water and public ammenities. While not on the rail trail, the Heritage listed Many Peaks Railway Dam is accessed by getting on to the (very low traffic) bitumen road at Many Peaks and riding back less than a kilometre.
The Town of Ubobo appears on a 1921 survey plan U7251. It was established as one of the soldier settlements created after World War I. [2]The name comes from the railway station name, assigned in 1910 by the Queensland Railways Department and is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning wild arrowroot. [1]
A rail connection to the south-east finally arrived in 1928, but locals continued to press for completion of the line from the north-east as it represented a shorter route. By the time this was completed in 1931 a road had been constructed through the rugged section between Mungungo and Boyne Valley, completing the link via Calliope to Gladstone.
The locality takes its name from the Boyne River, which in turn was named on 14 November 1823 by Surveyor-General John Oxley on the cutter HM Mermaid. [2]The Gladstone to Monto railway line opened its first section from Byellee (previously known as Boyne Valley Junction) to Many Peaks was opened on 25 July 1910 with Boynedale railway station serving the Boynedale locality