Travelling times by rail

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

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Cobb & Co coachworks, Charleville, 1900

Cobb & Co Coach and Buggy Builders, Charleville, 1900. This factory was opened in 1888. Collection of the Queensland Museum, Cobb+Co.

Collection of the Queensland Museum, Cobb+Co

Cobb & Co routes, Queensland 1885

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Cobb & Co

Coach routes indicated by a double line. The transport routes in Queensland were already established in 1885. North-south transport along the coast was by steamship. Railway lines headed west from Brisbane, Rockhampton and Townsville. Cobb & Co took over where the rails stopped, linking western towns like Cunnamulla, Charleville, Tambo and Winton.  A “trip out” to a town like Winton became more uncomfortable the closer the traveller came to the destination; from the relative comfort of a bunk on a steamer, to the relative comfort of a railway carriage, to the cramped, rolling discomfort of dusty coach travel. Railway construction was already heading to Charleville (1888) and Longreach (1892) which would become major centres for Cobb & Co. The company moved its coach factory from Brisbane to Charleville in 1888.  Map of Queensland, Compiled & Lithographed from Official Maps, Brisbane, 1885. Collection of the National Library of Australia.

Cobb & Co, Richmond, 1906

Cobb & Co's 'Royal Mail' Coach, Richmond, north Queensland, A.E. (Ted)  Richards, driver, 1906. Collection of Queensland Museum, Cobb+Co.

 Collection of Queensland Museum, Cobb+Co

Cobb & Co

There is often no road and the coach is taken at random through the forest… But the great miracle is the sudden pinches, looking as if they were almost perpendicular, do

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Floor plan and drawing of Queenslander house, 1939

Floor plan and drawing of a popular style of Queenslander house found throughout Queensland. The house, set on stumps, made its transportation possible.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image hch00019

Estate map of Hermit Park, 1884

This estate map advertised 191 allotments in the Townsville suburb of Hermit Park in 1884. Many houses from the gold fields town of Charters Towers were moved to Hermit Park after 1917.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 758683

Moving the laboratory at the Pioneer Sugar Mill, Brandon, 1965

The laboratory is moved to a new location at the Pioneer Sugar Mill, Brandon, 70 kilometres south-east of Townsville, 1965. Sugar train engines in the foreground. Slide by Beth Snewin, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Moving the laboratory at the Pioneer Mill, Brandon, 1965

Queensland's wooden buildings are transportable. One truck moves the old laboratory at the Pioneer Sugar Mill in Brandon, 70 kilometres south-east of Townsville, 1965. Slide by Beth Snewin, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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Moving the Commonwealth Savings Bank, Barcaldine 1961

The architecture throughout Queensland enables many buildings to be relocated. Two trucks take away the Commonwealth Savings Bank in Barcaldine, 1961. Slide by Gladys Hartland, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

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