Tarong railway line

Tarong Branch route map
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0km KingaroyTo Theebine (left) To Nanango (right) Taabinga Village Boonenne Goodger Archookoora Brooklands Tarong

Tarong Branch Railway. Plans for this thirty kilometre branch line in south-east Queensland, Australia were approved on 12 December 1911 together with an undertaking to extend it further south to Cooyar.^[1] Opened on 15 December 1915, the line passed through sidings at Taabinga Village, Boonenne, Goodger, Archookoora and Brooklands.

A mixed train ran thrice weekly but on 1 July 1961 the line suffered the same fate as the Windera branch with the promised link to Cooyar never materialising.

References

• "Triumph of Narrow Gauge: A History of Queensland Railways" by John Kerr 1990 Boolarong Press, Brisbane

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tarong railway line.

• 1925 map of the Queensland railway system

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