QUEENSLAND - PART 4

 

Sightings: April 1998

Photos: Various Dates

DATE 1998	LOCOS	TRAIN	LOCATION	TIME	NOTES: 4490 4520 4306 BRISBANE TOUR
11-4-1998	2185 -	Shunt	Acacia Ridge	08:48
	2419 -	-	Normanby	09:25
	2109 1009	-	Mayne	09:38
	1709 -	Shunt	Mayne	09:38
	1527 2173 2109 2407	Depot	Mayne Depot	11:43
	2146 2412 2415 2481	Depot	Mayne Depot	"
	2133 1557 1525 2131	Depot	Mayne Depot	"
	1746 2100 2462 1519	Depot	Mayne Depot	"
	2196 1728 1556 2807	Depot	Mayne Depot	"
	1009 -	Tour	Gatton		Chased from Brisbane.
	1745 1753 2194 1722	Depot	Willowburn		Night Visit
	2503 2118 2505 2199	Depot	Willowburn		Night Visit
	2466 1772	Depot	Willowburn		Night Visit
	NR24 NR13 NR119	BS2	Acacia Ridge	22:23
12-4-1998	4306 4490 4420	Tour	Greenbank		Tour to Murwillumbah and Sydney

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2192 2373  Mollasses Yukan

Photo: Brad Peadon

2137  at Jililan sporting the much nicer original type cab.

The driver only rebuilds really uglified them.

Photo: Brad Peadon

2212  Sugar Brandon

Photo: Brad Peadon

2146  sitting in Redbank workshops. Blue locomotives were few and far between by this time.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Evidently, this night we decided to take a run from Roma Street to Beenleigh station for some reason.

Glad I took photos of everything, as I sure as heck don't remember half of it. :-)

Photo: Brad Peadon

Spart 224 at Beenleigh station.

Photo: Brad Peadon

1769 inside Redbank LMD during a late-night (authorised) visit.

Photo: Brad Peadon

2488 inside Redbank LMD during a late-night (authorised) visit.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Not actually in Queensland, but very close to it.

The Broadwater Sugar Mill in northern New South Wales.

Photo: Brad Peadon

2212  Sugar Brandon

Photo: Brad Peadon

1556  at Mayne loco depot in Brisbane.

The unit was later rebuilt to 2302.

Photo: Brad Peadon

EMU205 departing Strathpine (Brisbane).

Photo: Brad Peadon

Remains of the once busy Newstead industrial branch in suburban Brisbane. At the time of taking these, I remember being glad they chose to retain the tracks as a reminder of the past.

However, research for a social media post lead me to find the two spots on Google Streetscape, and thus to the sad realisation that the surviving trackage all appears to be developed over.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Brookstead (Millmerran branch line).

Opened 1887.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Yandilla (Millmerran branch line).

Opened 1887.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Terminus of Millmerran (Millmerran branch line).

Opened 1911, after being extended from Pittsworth.

Services, which were mostly grain in the end, were suspended some time ago. It is believed the track is still in place.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Texas, which was the terminus of a branch line from Inglewood.

Opened 1930 - Closed 1994.

Photo: Brad Peadon

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Texas & Inglewood Heritage Railway Society Inc

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Thanks:

David A Phillips (Bundy Colonel)

Stations Past

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