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Emerald is a town in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland. It lies on the Nogoa River, a tributary of the Fitzroy River. The town lies almost 300 km from the coast and approximately 270 km west of the city of Rockhampton on the junction of the Capricorn and Gregory highways. The Tropic of Capricorn intersects the Gregory Highway just north of Emerald.

The area was originally owned by Aboriginal groups (for example, the Gayiri) for tens of thousands of years before European colonisation in the nineteenth century. The first European to explore the area was Ludwig Leichhardt between 1843 and 1845.

Emerald was established in 1879 as a base for the Central railway line from Rockhampton. It was one of the two largest towns in Queensland which were established as a result of being made the site of a railway station, rather than the railway being built

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Stroll to the northern end of the platform at heritage-listed Toowoomba Railway Station and you’ll find a record that leaves no doubt about the impact WWI had on the locality’s population.

The Roll of Honour, 1914-1919, Queensland Railways Toowoomba Employees is a magnificently carved silky oak honour board with an impressive listing of 560 names in gold lettering on cedar panels.

Railways Commissioner Charles Evans, a former Toowoomba railwayman himself, unveiled the tribute on 14 April 1918. Prime Minister Billy Hughes had stood on the platform in October 1916, urging enlistments.

The honour board was artfully crafted at the North Ipswich railway workshops, now the Workshops Rail Museum. Detailing includes columns crowned with decorative motifs of the Queensland Railways emblem, scrolls and shells, and the Australian Coat of Arms.

Toowoomba Railway Station, which opened in the 1870s, was still a bustling centre for trade and travellers. Today, the Westlander

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The Emerald Railway Station is a heritage-listed railway station on the Central Western railway line at Clermont Street, Emerald. The building design was signed by Henrik Hansen and was built in 1900 by Thomas Moir. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.

The Central Western railway was extended from Comet to Emerald on 19 May 1879. Emerald was chosen as a point for branch lines to Clermont (1884) and Springsure (1887) to save building separate lines to each and to enable the main line to be extended due west. Emerald’s position as a railway junction made it a locomotive depot allowing Emerald to become a major regional centre.

The station building and yard dominates the south side of Clermont Street. The station building is distinguished by the semi-circular roof to the central portico. Flanking pavilions are also distinctive elements having window shades

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