The Darling Downs is a very fertile agricultural area in South East Queensland, and was the destination of the first railway built by the State government to facilitate transport and encourage development and immigration. The main line arrived in 1868, and was extended west commencing a decade later.
Despite being a productive valley, with Jimbour House being one of the earliest settled areas in the region, a railway was not approved until December 1911, the line opening on 13 August 1914.[citation needed]
Initially the junction was situated at Mahar, about 3 kilometres west of Dalby, but a parallel line was built to Dalby within a few years to save on the cost of staffing the junction.[1]
The line was undulating, with a maximum grade on 1 in 73 (~1.37%) in the northwest bound direction, and 1 in 83 (~1.2%) in the southeast direction, with curves of a minimum 500m radius and only 1 substantial bridge on the line.
A mixed train initially plied the route three times a week taking some 2¾ hours to complete the one-way journey. A rail motor service ran three days a week from 1928 to 1941. The line catered in the main for the transport of dairy products along with bagged and bulk grain.
The line was upgraded in the 1990s to enable grain traffic to be handled by main line locomotives. It had 30 kg/m rails, a 15.75 tonne axle load and a line speed of 30 km/h.
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jandowae, railway, line, coordinates, using, openstreetmap, download, coordinates, coordinates, primary, coordinates, secondary, coordinates, jandowae, branch, railway, kilometres, railway, line, from, dalby, jandowae, darling, downs, region, queensland, austr. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as KML GPX all coordinates GPX primary coordinates GPX secondary coordinates The Jandowae Branch Railway was a 46 kilometres 29 mi railway line from Dalby to Jandowae in the Darling Downs region of Queensland Australia Contents 1 History 2 Route 3 References 4 External linksHistory editThe Darling Downs is a very fertile agricultural area in South East Queensland and was the destination of the first railway built by the State government to facilitate transport and encourage development and immigration The main line arrived in 1868 and was extended west commencing a decade later Despite being a productive valley with Jimbour House being one of the earliest settled areas in the region a railway was not approved until December 1911 the line opening on 13 August 1914 citation needed Initially the junction was situated at Mahar about 3 kilometres west of Dalby but a parallel line was built to Dalby within a few years to save on the cost of staffing the junction 1 The line was undulating with a maximum grade on 1 in 73 1 37 in the northwest bound direction and 1 in 83 1 2 in the southeast direction with curves of a minimum 500m radius and only 1 substantial bridge on the line A mixed train initially plied the route three times a week taking some 2 hours to complete the one way journey A rail motor service ran three days a week from 1928 to 1941 The line catered in the main for the transport of dairy products along with bagged and bulk grain The line was upgraded in the 1990s to enable grain traffic to be handled by main line locomotives It had 30 kg m rails a 15 75 tonne axle load and a line speed of 30 km h The line closed on 26 June 2013 2 Route editStations on the route included from north to south Jandowae railway station 26 46 58 S 151 06 31 E 26 7828 S 151 1087 E 26 7828 151 1087 Jandowae railway station former 3 Marnhull railway station 26 50 34 S 151 09 40 E 26 8429 S 151 1610 E 26 8429 151 1610 Marnhull railway station former 3 Cresley railway station 26 52 29 S 151 10 41 E 26 8748 S 151 1780 E 26 8748 151 1780 Cresley railway station former 3 Kuyuru railway station 26 54 11 S 151 11 24 E 26 9031 S 151 1899 E 26 9031 151 1899 Kuyura railway station former 3 Pirrinuan railway station 27 01 59 S 151 14 08 E 27 0331 S 151 2355 E 27 0331 151 2355 Pirrinuan railway station former 3 4 References edit Kerr J Triumph of Narrow Gauge Boolarong Press 1990 Archived copy PDF Archived from the original PDF on 25 April 2014 Retrieved 24 April 2014 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link a b c d e Railway stations and sidings Queensland Queensland Open Data Queensland Government 2 October 2020 Archived from the original on 5 October 2020 Retrieved 5 October 2020 Queensland Globe State of Queensland Retrieved 6 November 2021 External links edit1925 map of the Queensland railway system Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jandowae railway line amp oldid 1062737101, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
