The Great Northern Railway is a 1067 mm narrow-gauge railway line in Queensland, Australia. The line stretches nearly 1,000 kilometres linking the port city of Townsville, Australia to the mining town
QR loco 1501 hauls a special train across the 1960s era Burdekin River bridge, September 1989. The original 1882, now disused bridge is in the foreground.
Celebration train for the extension to Richmond, 1904
Train crossing a bridge at Homestead, situated between Charters Towers and Pentland ~1925
View of Julia Creek ~1928. Views of the Railway Station at Julia Creek looking east towards Richmond. A steam train is travelling towards Mount Isa. A.J. Smith's store can be seen on the left of the image (Description supplied with photograph)
The Hughenden-Winton railway line was a railway line in Queensland, Australia, branching from the Mt Isa line at Hughenden and connecting to the Central West line at Winton.
Great Northern Railway (Mt Isa line)
…keen to encourage settlement in the largely dry and remote central and southern far west. With this in mind, an extension from Hughenden south-west to Winton was approved in 1896 and 1897. Construction was undertaken in three stages. The line opened via Watten, Alba and Warianna sidings to Stamford on 13…
QR 1600 Class leader 1600 hauling the Winton-Hughenden mixed train crosses 1645, September 1989. Note the combined passenger and guards van immediately behind 1600
QR 1620 Class Locomotive 1645 at Corfield Station, September 1989