The old Laura Homestead, Lakefield National Park, Cook Shire, 1982. The homestead and outbuildings in ruins. Slides by Ruth Read, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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Shorn sheep and shearing shed, Colston Homestead, Winton, 1979. Slide by Bernie Searle & Loretta Searle, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Bernie Searle & Loretta Searle and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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

Copyright © Bernie Searle & Loretta Searle and 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

Copyright © Allan Webb and 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

Copyright © Allan Webb and 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

Copyright © Allan Webb and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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

Copyright © Allan Webb and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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

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

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

QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

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