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Mount Morgan is a town and locality in Rockhampton Region, Queensland. It is situated on the Dee River, 38 km south of the city of Rockhampton, and 680 km north of the state capital, Brisbane. The Burnett Highway passes through the town.

Mount Morgan was founded on Kangulu tribal lands as a gold mining town in 1882, and over time the Mount Morgan Mines has produced gold, silver and copper. The town of Mount Morgan grew in a haphazard fashion around the entrance to the mining lease near the Dee River from the early 1880s.

The railway link between Mount Morgan and Rockhampton was not built until 1898. Until that time, everything was transported by horse team. The area was host to one of the few rack railways (as part of the line from Mount Morgan to Rockhampton) to operate in Australia. The rack portion of the

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North Rockhampton Railway Station was a railway station in The Common, Rockhampton, Queensland. The station was built as the terminus of the North Rockhampton to Emu Park railway line which opened in 1888. The line was built to give Rockhampton residents easy access to the seaside.

Although Rockhampton had a railway station, it was on the southern side of the Fitzroy River and building a rail bridge across the river was seen as too expensive, to the line commenced on the north side of the river. However, having a disconnected railway line proved inconvenient and in 1899, the Rockhampton Junction railway line was built linking Rockhampton’s main railway station with North Rockhampton via the Alexandra Railway Bridge over the Fitzroy River.

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Archer Park Railway Station, the former Rockhampton Central Railway Station, is situated on Denison Street and forms an important link with the social, cultural and transport history of Rockhampton and central Queensland.

It was the major railway station in Rockhampton from the turn of the century until the mid-1920’s and is an important element in the development of the railway network in Queensland, and the growth of the North Coast Railway in the early part of the twentieth century.

The railway station consists of a main station building which has a railway platform to the southwest and a verandah entrance to the northeast. Both the platform and tracks are covered by a steel framed carriage shade which runs the full length of the station.

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Being the central station for Rockhampton, Archer Park superseded the Stanley Street station not long after its construction. Mail trains to Brisbane departed from Archer Park following completion of the Gladstone-Rockhampton link in 1903. Archer Park was designed as a passenger station and did not handle goods traffic apart from parcels and mail.

The station was also important as the departure and terminating point for services to Mount Morgan, Emu Park and the local suburban services to Lakes Creek at North Rockhampton. Excursions to the seaside at Emu Park and later Yeppoon were also extremely popular.

The Stanley Street station was enlarged in 1923 to cater for longer trains, and two 600 foot long platforms were provided. The station was further enlarged between 1924 and 1928, making it the major station in Rockhampton. The long-distance mail and passenger trains all departed from the Stanley Street station leaving

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