The rail network in Queensland, Australia, was the first in the world to adopt 1,067 mm narrow gauge for a main line. In 2013, it claimed to be the second largest narrow gauge network in the world. Th
Queensland Rail B12 class steam locomotive No. 14 on the Central Line in 1878.
Queensland Rail SMU 265 at Nambour station on 10 March 2009.
Queensland Rail heritage locos of the PB15, C17 and BB18¼ classes haul a special train for the 125th anniversary of QR on the Little Liverpool Range west of Grandchester, July 1990.
Northbound Spirit of Capricorn service at Bundaberg station, ~1989
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
Rail transport in Queensland
…lines), including: the Western line from Brisbane to Toowoomba and Charleville the Central Western line from Rockhampton to Longreach and Winton the Mt Isa line from Townsville to Mount Isa the Tablelands line from Cairns to Forsayth four export coal networks, including: Moura to Gladstone Blackwater to Gladstone…
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)