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Gin Gin Railway Station is a heritage-listed railway station at Mulgrave Street, Gin Gin, Bundaberg Region, Queensland. It was built from 1888 to c. 1928. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 July 2000.

The township of Gin Gin was gazetted in 1877, consisting of an area of some three thousand acres on the Gin Gin run. Gin Gin was an original station of the first section of the Mount Perry railway line which opened from North Bundaberg to Moolbolaman on 19 July 1881.

The Mount Perry railway line was one of several major railway lines approved by the Queensland Parliament in 1877, to access the gold and copper fields of Queensland from the ports of Maryborough, Townsville and Bundaberg.

The Gin Gin Railway Station and Complex is important as a substantially intact example of a country branchline station and its associated buildings and

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Warwick is a town and locality in southeast Queensland, lying 130 km south-west of Brisbane. It is the administrative centre of the Southern Downs Region local government area. The surrounding Darling Downs have fostered a strong agricultural industry for which Warwick, together with the larger city of Toowoomba, serve as convenient service centres.

The Warwick Green Belt, on the banks of the Condamine River, features a sculpture of Tiddalik the mythical frog that drank all of the fresh water in a renowned Aboriginal Dreamtime Story.

Patrick Leslie and his two brothers originally settled in the area as squatters, naming their run Canning Downs. In 1847 the NSW government asked Ledlie to select a site on his station for a township, which was to be called ‘Cannington,’ although the name ‘Warwick’ was eventually settled on.

Land sales were held in 1850, and the first allotment was bought

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The two world wars are reflected within the Toowoomba Railway Station environment. From 1914-1919 a magnificent wooden Honour Board at the north end of the station pays tribute to the role of Toowoomba railway workers in the armed services in World War I. Of interest is the fact that it was crafted at the North Ipswich railway workshops, and unveiled by railway commissioner Charles Evans, a former Toowoomba railwayman himself. The station also has two World War II air raid shelters: one near the Honour Board built as protection for railway employees; the second lies outside the main station entrance and was constructed to protect the general public from bomb splinters.

The Honour Roll is set on diagonal boarding and has a central panel with a broken pediment on scrolled brackets, divided from side panels with pilasters. Carved into the broken pediment are the Australian Coat

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The Toowoomba Railway Station, Honour Board and Railway Yard Structures complex is located on Railway Street, within walking proximity of the Toowoomba town centre. The Railway Station complex comprises the main station building, awnings and outbuildings, and several yard structures.

The station building consists of adjoining two-storeyed rendered masonry buildings with single-storeyed annexes and outbuildings with corrugated iron roofs. The buildings line the edge of a concrete platform, which is covered with corrugated iron canopies, and which extends out beyond the main buildings to the north and the south.

The platform canopies have been constructed at different stages, in different forms and materials. The canopy attached to the Station Building and Refreshment Room Wing is framed in timber and has an arched corrugated iron roof.

The roof rests on timber trusses with arched top cords and is stabilised with lateral trusses. The roof structure is supported on steel

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