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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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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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The station environment also contains intact structures associated with former railway operations. Some of these yard structures include Signal Cabin A, a water crane and a wagon weighbridge.

Signal Cabin A is a two-storeyed chamferboard-clad building with pitched corrugated iron roofs and a cantilevered timber catwalk overlooking the railway at first-floor level. The building contains intact but disconnected mechanical signalling equipment. The first floor contains a large frame of colour-coded mechanical steel signalling levers, timber and brass track indicators, and a yard diagram.

The Water Crane comprises of a cast iron hollow tube surmounted by a rotating cast iron feeder arm with valve controls and a canvas tube attached, mounted on a concrete pedestal and adjacent to a concrete drain. The Wagon Weighbridge comprises a large steel scale housed in a chamferboard-clad building with a pitched corrugated iron roof and a large metal balance plate.

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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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