Mount Edwards railway line

Mount Edwards railway line
Legend 25km Mount Edwards 19km Aratula 17km Morwincha Watering Station 14km Fassifern Valley 12km Warumkarie 9km Kalbar 4km Waraperta 0km Dugandan Line at Munbilla

The Mount Edwards railway line was a branch railway in the Scenic Rim region of South East Queensland, Australia. The lines services a number of small towns in the Fassifern Valley.

The 25 km long line branched off the Dugandan line at the rural locality of Munbilla 38 km south of the city of Ipswich. The line then proceeded in a generally south-westerly direction to the locality of Mount Edwards near the village of Aratula.

The line was intended to form part of a via recta (Latin, "straight route") between Brisbane and Sydney via the break-of-gauge border town of Wallangarra. Before the completion of the New South Wales North Coast Line in 1930, rail traffic between the two state capitals travelled west from Brisbane to Toowoomba then south to Wallangarra via Warwick. The via recta was to incorporate the Mount Edwards line and the Maryvale line on the other side of the Great Dividing Range to produce a direct route southwest from Brisbane to Warwick, shaving around 95 km off the interstate journey. However, the via recta was never completed.^[1]

The Mount Edwards line opened in 1922 and closed in 1960.^[1][2]

See also

• Rail transport in Queensland

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mount Edwards railway line.

• 1925 map of the Queensland railway system

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