Brisbane, central part, 1951

3 March 2015
3 March 2015

Collection of the Lands Museum, Department of Environment and Resource Management 

Brisbane, central part, 1951. This map shows the extent of the tramway system after it had expanded to its fullest extent in 1947. It also marks the routes of buses and trains operating in Brisbane. Drawn and published by the Survey Office, Public Lands, Brisbane, September 1951. Collection of the Lands Museum, Department of Environment and Resource Management 

Railways destination roll, Wallangarra

Railways destination roll, Wallangarra

Destination rolls listed a number of locations along rail routes and were wound by hand to indicate the train destination. 

Location

Australia
R4482
Queensland Museum
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia

Train being towed off Inkerman Bridge by donkey engine, flood February 1922.

QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

The Townsville Mail ploughs through floodwaters covering the rails on the Burdekin River Bridge on the 21 March 1936. Passengers in the coaches lean out of the windows to get a good view. QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

Survival in Queensland during climatic extremes has often relied on the rail network.

For more than one hundred years Queensland’s main mental health facility was based on the banks of the Brisbane River near Goodna.

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