Canungra railway line

Canungra railway line

Canungra station, ca. 1918
Overview
Status Closed
Locale South East Queensland
Termini Logan Village
Canungra
Continues from Beaudesert line
Operation
Opened 2 July 1915
Closed 1 June 1955
Owner Queensland Rail
Operator(s) Queensland Rail
Technical
Line length 33.1 km (20.6 mi)
Track gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Route map
Canungra line
showing distance (miles) from South Brisbane
27 Logan Village (Left arrow Beaudesert line Right arrow)
34 Plunkett
36 Tamborine
39 Bromfleet
41 Boyland
44 Wonglepong
46 Benobble
48 Canungra
Laheys Tramway

The Canungra railway line was a branch railway in South East Queensland, Australia. It connected Logan Village on the Beaudesert line and Canungra.

Canungra was the centre of regional timber production from the 1860s with a large sawmill completed in 1885. The private Laheys Tramway, carrying timber from nearby forests to Canungra, opened in 1900. By 1911 there 18 bullock teams moving sawn timber between Canungra and the railway at Logan Village.[1]

A railway from Logan Village to Canungra was first proposed in 1900[2] with a survey commissioned in 1908.[3] Construction began in 1913 and the line opened on 2 July 1915.[4][5]

Timber traffic started to decline from 1923 and most of the timber in the area had been cut by the 1940s.[6] There was substantial traffic on the line during the Pacific War after the Jungle Warfare Training Centre opened at Canungra in November 1942. Traffic declined after World War II and the line closed on 1 June 1955.[4][5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ John Kerr (1998). Forest Industry Heritage Places Study: Sawmills and Tramways, South Eastern Queensland. Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. p. 226.
  2. ↑ "The Brisbane Courier. Friday August 10, 1900". Brisbane Courier. 10 August 1900.
  3. ↑ "Proposed Canungra Railway". Brisbane Courier. 11 June 1908.
  4. 1 2 "The Canungra Branch" Australian Railway History January 1993 pp12-19
  5. 1 2 Quinlan, Howard; Newland, John (2000). Australian Railway Routes 1854 - 2000. Redfern: Australian Railway Historical Society. p. 38. ISBN 0909650497.
  6. ↑ Heritage Trails of the Great South East. Queensland Environmental Protection Agency. 2000. p. 16. ISBN 0-7345-1008-X.
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