Freshwater railway station, Queensland
Freshwater railway station is on the Cairns-to-Kuranda railway line in Queensland, Australia. It is located at Kamerunga Road, Barron in Cairns.
Freshwater railway station, 2015
Freshwater railway station, trackside, 2018
Cairns-to-Kuranda railway line
The Cairns-to-Kuranda Railway is a heritage-listed railway line from the Cairns Region to the Shire of Mareeba, both in Queensland, Australia. It commences at Redlynch, a suburb of Cairns and travels up the Great Dividing Range to Kuranda within the Shire of Mareeba on the Atherton Tableland. It was built from 1913 to 1915 by Queensland Railways. Components of it include Stoney Creek Bridge, the Rail Bridge over Christmas Creek, Kuranda railway station, and Surprise Creek Rail Bridge. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 August 1992. The railway is used to operate a tourist rail service, the Kuranda Scenic Railway. It forms part of the Tablelands railway line.
Barron Falls seen from the station, circa 1906
Barron Falls, 2012
Stoney Creek bridge and falls, 2005
Kuranda railway station, 2015