The Ipswich to Bowen Hills 8.30 am express train with diesel engine and wooden carriages arrives at Chelmer Station, Brisbane in 1972. Electrification of the Brisbane suburban train network began in 1979, with the last diesel passenger train running in 1999. Slide by Laurel Murdoch, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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The 8.30am express train from Ipswich to Bowen Hills arrives at the Brisbane southern suburb Chelmer Station in 1972. The train has a diesel engine and wooden carriages. Slide by Laurel Murdoch, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

Copyright Laurel Murdoch and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Interior of the parlour car of the Southern Mail train. First Class passengers could reserve the chairs in the parlour car for five shillings. Advertisement from Queensland Railways, Hand book, 1912. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland. 

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Travel between towns and districts was slow and difficult when Queensland separated from New South Wales in 1859.

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