The Boolboonda Tunnel was built for a railway line to service the booming copper mining town of Mount Perry and support the agriculture of the area. Construction of the Boolboonda Tunnel began in 1883 and opened in 1884. The unlined and unsupported tunnel through rock is 192 metres in length, making it the longest unsupported railway tunnel … Read more
The Muntapa Tunnel is a tunnel for an old railway branch line from Oakey through to Cooyar that operated between 1913 and 1964. The tunnel is Queensland’s longest straight railway tunnel at 287m long, and the only tunnel in Australia that crossed between the inland and coastal sides of the Great Dividing Range, connecting two … Read more
The Workshops Rail Museum is in Ipswich and often referred to as the Ipswich Railway Museum, opening in 2002. It is the first point of interest on the Cobb & Co Tourist Drive . The site was originally Queensland Rail’s North Ipswich Railway Workshops, a larger site from the when the original workshops, where Queensland … Read more
The Bundaberg Railway Museum on the north side of the river is the original train station for Bundaberg when the rail brought copper from the mines at Mt Perry . The rail passes by now, heading north towards and the new station moved to the south side to be nearer the main part of town. … Read more
The railway between Sydney and Goulburn was the first conceived steam railway in Australia, with the line opening in 1869. William Bradley, the founding director of the Sydney Railway Company who built the line, was also the founder of the Goulburn Brewery. The Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre is just out of town heading towards Braidwood. … Read more
