Doomben railway line

Doomben line
Website queenslandrail.com.au
Technical
Line length 0 km (0 mi)
Track length 9.9 km (6.2 mi)
Track gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) Cape gauge
Operating speed 0 km/h (0 mph)

The Doomben railway line is a short suburban railway line extending 6.2 km (3.9 mi) east-northeast from Brisbane (9.9 km from Central station by rail), the state capital of Queensland, Australia. It is part of the QR Citytrain network.

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History

For more details on this topic, see Rail transport in Queensland.

The line opened on 3 September 1882 to Pinkenba railway station. During World War I and World War II, with deep berthing available to ships at Pinkenba on the mouth of the Brisbane River, troops camped in the Pinkenba and Meeandah localities. Passenger ships used the Pinkenba wharf, and special trains ran from Brisbane to Pinkenba.[1]

The line was electrified in 1988, but only until a number of metres past Eagle Farm, the next station after current suburban terminus Doomben; only diesel-hauled services could travel the full length of the line, and those were infrequent. All passenger services on the line were suspended in September 1993 by a Goss Labor Party government as part of a state-wide rationalisation of the rail network with the closing or suspending of under-utilised or unprofitable rail lines. Only a few special services were run on the line on days of major race events at adjoining race tracks.

Electric passenger services resumed on 27 January 1998 under a Borbidge National Party government, but only as far as Doomben,[2] with bus connections to the other abandoned stations.

The Pinkenba section of the railway line (after Doomben station) has closed completely, however the track has been upgraded so the possibility of future services on the line is not impossible.[3]

Heritage services

QR occasionally run special steam train passenger services on the entire Pinkenba railway line as part of their semi-regular Steam Train Sunday excursion service.[4] This is the only way to travel on the full length of the line.

Line guide and services

All services stop at all stations to Roma Street railway station. The typical travel time between Doomben and Brisbane City is approximately 18 minutes (to Central).

Doomben line services typically continue as Cleveland line services. No rail services operate on Sundays or public holidays.

Passengers for/from the Airport, Caboolture and Shorncliffe lines change at Eagle Junction, Ferny Grove and Nambour and Gympie North lines at Bowen Hills, and all other lines at Central.

Doomben railway line
showing distance from Central, ticket zone, and connecting or nearby bus services
Beenleigh, Cleveland, Gold Coast, Ipswich, Rosewood, Tennyson lines
Exhibition line
0.8 km Roma Street (1) See Roma Street railway station
0.0 km CENTRAL (1) See Adelaide Street Bus Mall
1.3 km Fortitude Valley (1) See Fortitude Valley railway station
Exhibition line
2.7 km Bowen Hills (1) 301, 310, 315, 320, 393
Inner City Bypass
Ferny Grove line
Breakfast Creek
4.5 km Albion (2) 306, 310, 315, 322
5.6 km Wooloowin (2)
6.5 km Eagle Junction (2) 303, 304, 320, 321
Airport, Caboolture, Nambour and Gympie North, Shorncliffe lines
7.4 km Clayfield (2) 303, 304, 610, 615
8.0 km Hendra (2) 300, 303, 304
8.9 km Ascot (2) 300, 303, 304
9.9 km DOOMBEN (2) 301, 303, 304
To Hamilton Cold Stores (Whinstanes freight branch)
Gateway Motorway
Eagle Farm 1 (Airport) 302, 303, 304
Eagle Farm 2
Gateway Motorway Deviation (under construction)
Bunour 302, 303, 304
Meeandah 302, 303, 304
Eagle Farm Road
PINKENBA 302, 303
Pinkenba balloon loop
Incitec Wharf
Shell Terminal
Boral Gas siding
BP Oil Refinery

References

  1. ^ Hallam, Greg (2005). Brisbane's Biography (Steamtrain Sunday). QR Limited. 
  2. ^ "Doomben Rail Service Resume January 27" (Press release). Queensland Government. 1998-01-21. http://statements.cabinet.qld.gov.au/MMS/StatementDisplaySingle.aspx?id=5094. Retrieved 2007-11-22. 
  3. ^ http://www.railpage.com.au/f-t11355554.htm
  4. ^ "Citytrain - Events - Steam Train Sunday". Events. QR Limited. http://www.citytrain.com.au/events/Steam_Train_Sunday/steam_train_sunday.asp. Retrieved 2007-11-22. 

External links

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