Refreshment Room staff at Bethania Junction c1935. Refreshment Rooms were primarily staffed by women, although men were also employed as Managers, Cooks and ‘Generals’ and boys as Male Juniors.

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Advertisement showing list of Refreshment Rooms, Queensland Railways Public Timetable, 1925. By the 1930s, leased rooms again outnumbered their State-run competitors.

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Plans Cottage for attendants at Refreshment Rooms, Maryborough, 1916

Maryborough, QLD
Australia
25° 32' 20.058" S, 152° 42' 28.53" E
24 October 1916
25 September 2012
25 September 2012

Location

Maryborough, QLD
Australia
25° 32' 20.058" S, 152° 42' 28.53" E

Copyright © Collection of the Workshops Rail Museum, Ipswich

Queensland Railway Refreshment Rooms price list, 1972

This framed menu is from the Queensland Railways Refreshment Rooms at Toowoomba Station.

Location

Australia
R4084
Queensland Museum
1 January 1966
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia

Sketch guide map of the Queensland Railways, 1904

Australia
1 January 1904
1 November 2010
1 November 2010

Location

Australia
Watson Ferguson & Co Lithographers, Brisbane

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Sketch guide map of the Queensland Railways, 1904. Showing all railway stations, sidings, and mileage with heights above sea level. This map depicts all the railway lines including the isolated Normanton to Croydon line. Box sections detail parcel carriage and delivery rates within Queensland and interstate. Marked on the map are principal stations, ordinary stations, private lines, lines under construction and refreshment stations. It includes the maximum price authorised to be charged at railway refreshment rooms in 1904 as 2 shillings and 6d for lunch and dinner (consisting of soup, poultry or hot joint with potatoes and other vegetables, pudding or pastry, bread, butter and cheese with fruit and a cup of tea or coffee) or 2 shillings for breakfast and supper.  Collection of Queensland State Archives

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