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A heavy-haul railway line was built from Blackwater to the coal fields at Laleham in 1970. A heavy-haul railway was built from Rangal (west of Blackwater) to the coal fields at Kinrola in 1967. This line was extended to the Rolleston coal mine in 2006. This is the first new non-urban railway in Queensland for 23 years, and reflects the upswing ...
Queensland Rail (QR) is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia. Queensland Rail is owned by the Queensland Government, and operates both suburban and interurban rail services in South East Queensland, as well as long-distance passenger train services connecting Brisbane to regional Queensland. QR also owns and maintains rolling stock, in ...
Construction of the Queensland rail network began in 1864 with the first section of the Main Line railway from Ipswich to Grandchester being built. This was the first narrow-gauge main line constructed in the world [3] and, in 2013, was claimed to be the second largest narrow-gauge railway network in the world.
The Australian Railway Historical Society (ARHS) has been a railway organisation concerned with history and preservation of railway heritage at a national level. It has had divisions in every state and the Australian Capital Territory , although the ACT division was wound up in 2016, along with the Victorian division in 2020.
Queensland Rail, Orient-Express Hotels Ltd: Kuranda railway station – Sydney Central: April 1999–June 2003 Great Southern: Journey Beyond Rail Expeditions: Adelaide Parklands Terminal – Brisbane Roma Street: 9 December 2019–present The Gulflander: Queensland Rail: Normanton – Croydon: 1891–present Indian Pacific: Journey Beyond Rail ...
Queensland's first railway line, opened on 31 July 1865, ran between Ipswich and Grandchester, approximately 35 km (21.7 mi) [a] to the town's west. To support the new line, which became known as the South and West Railway, construction of two workshop buildings at Ipswich commenced in 1863, about a kilometre (0.62 miles) south of the present facility on the northern banks of the Bremer River.
This was subsequently applied to all the railways built in Queensland, except for the Sydney–Brisbane line and the Weipa mining railway, both built in the 20th century. [11] This was the first 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ) railway in the world, but the gauge subsequently spread to Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania , New Zealand, Japan ...
Rosewood Railway [44] (railway operation suspended as at December 2022 [45]) Savannahlander—Cairns–Forsayth. [46] Sea World Railway, Main Beach— 610 mm (2 ft) gauge. (railway operation ceased by 2022; not to be confused with monorail which also ceased from 2022 [47]) Southern Downs Steam Railway—former name of Downs Explorer, q.v. above