Charters Towers railway station (also known as Queenton railway station) is at Queenton, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia. It is on the Great Northern line at Charters Towers, 134 kilometres (83 mi) west of Townsville in North Queensland, Australia.
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 Outside Charters Towers railway station, circa 1888 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | New Queen Road, Charters Towers | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Queensland Rail | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Traveltrain | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Great Northern | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | December 1882 | |||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1983 | |||||||||||||||
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History
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The line arrived at Charters Towers in December 1882[1] and eventually extended west to the city of Mount Isa in 1929.[2] The line was built initially to connect Charters Towers with the Port of Townsville. The spark was the discovery of gold that had taken place in January 1872. Seven years later the rise in gold returns convinced the government to connect the centre to the coast with a more reliable transport conduit. The station was built at Queenton, midway between the two population centres of Charters Towers and Millchester.[3] The station was opened in December 1882 by Premier Thomas McIlwraith.[4]
The signals, crane and subway at the station were listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 30 October 2008.[5]
Services
editCharters Towers is served by Traveltrain's Inlander service
- the westbound service (3M34) stops at the station at 3.30pm Wednesday and Saturday[citation needed]
- the eastbound service (3231) stopping at the station at 7.05am Monday and Friday.[6][dead link]
References
edit- ^ World History Archived 6 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine Charters Towers Regional Council
- ^ Mount Isa Queensland Places. Centre for the Government of Queensland
- ^ Charters Towers Suburbs.Queensland Places. Centre for the Government of Queensland
- ^ Oxford University (1 January 1884). Pugh's Queensland almanac, law calendar, directory, and coast guide. Brisbane, Qld. : Thorne and Greenwell.
- ^ "Signals, Crane and Subway, Charters Towers Railway Station (entry 602627)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- ^ "Westlander & Inlander timetable" (PDF). Queensland Rail Travel. 19 September 2020.
Further reading
edit- Brumby, Michael (2006). Charters Towers: 1887. Charters Towers: CTADAG Northern Miner 5 December 1901
External links
edit- Charters Towers station Queensland's Railways on the Internet