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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.
The Queensland Pioneer Steam Railway is located near Ipswich, Queensland, Australia and runs through the former West Moreton pioneering coal fields. It was first opened in 1881 by colliery proprietor and politician Lewis Thomas (1832-1913) as a tramway to his coal mines.
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 Pioneer Steam Railway [41] (also known as Swanbank Railway) Ravenshoe Railway Company [42] (railway operation suspended from December 2020 [43] - plans for reopening in progress) Rosewood Railway [44] (railway operation suspended as at December 2022 [45]) Savannahlander—Cairns–Forsayth. [46] Sea World Railway, Main Beach— 610 ...
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.
In 1988, the New South Wales line from Tenterfield to Wallangarra closed. The last train to operate north of Tenterfield was an Australian Railway Historical Society charter on 15 January 1988 hauled by diesel locomotive 4487. [18] However, in the same year, Queensland Rail installed a gantry crane formerly used at Clapham Yard in Brisbane. [19]
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.
Railway Historical Centre is a heritage-listed warehouse at North Street, North Ipswich, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1878 to 1879. It is also known as Railway Administration Building, Railway Store, and Tarpaulin Shop. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. [1]