Survival

Colston Homestead, Winton, 1972. Slide by Bernie Searle & Loretta Searle, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Glengallan Homestead, Warwick, 1974, in ruins before restoration. Slide by Allan Webb, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Jimbour House, Dalby, 1974. Including stone store house under restoration for staff living quarters, water tower for artesian water pumped by windmill, and house on Jimbour property from where Leichhardt began his 1844 journey to Port Essington. Slides by Allan Webb, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Wolston Homestead, Wacol, 1972. The homestead, built in 1852, was the first property acquired by the National Trust of Queensland. Slide by Allan Webb, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Smithfield Homestead, Toowoomba, 1974. Slides by Allan Webb, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Station homesteads

The station homestead was an important landscape feature that assisted the establishment and survival of the Queensland pastoral industry and the community of people associated with the industry.

Sketch guide map of the Queensland Railways, 1904

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1 January 1904

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Location

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1 November 2010

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

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

QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

Railway passengers crossing Rooper’s Bridge on Fitzroy River on 60 flat wagons, c1900. Well dressed women and men carry their own luggage. Cossar-Smith Album, Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Flat wagons set up as a temporary bridge between Milton and Toowong, c1900. Passengers from a train and local residents could walk across these wagons and planks to connect with a train waiting on the other side. There are passengers on the far bank ready to make the crossing. QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

Survival

Colston Homestead, Winton, 1972

Glengallan Homestead, Warwick, 1974

Jimbour House, Dalby, 1974

Wolston Homestead, Wacol, 1972

Smithfield Homestead, Toowoomba, 1974

Station homesteads

Sketch guide map of the Queensland Railways, 1904

Location

Train towed across Burdekin River at Inkerman sugar mill, 1922

Railway passengers crossing Fitzroy River on flat wagons, c1900

Flat wagons set up as a temporary bridge between Milton and Toowong, c1900