Re: (QLD) Ferny Grove to Dayboro

["Mark Nolan" <marknolan@email.msn.com>]

Dear Mr Smith,

I have various articles on the Dayboro line in Sunshine Express, the
magazine of ARHS (Qld), which I will retrive and provide more detailed info
on this line. However, the line opened from Mayne to Enoggera on 5/2/1899;
from Enoggera to Gaythorne on 16/2/1916; Gaythorne to Mitchelton on
2/3/1918; from Michelton to Samford on 1/7/1918; Samford Samsonvale on
3/31919; Samsonvale to Kobble on 3/11/1919 and from Kobble to Dayboro on
25/9/1920.

It was cloesd beyond Ferny Grove on 1/7/1955 essentially as it was running
at a loss and was one of the first branches to close in Qld. The length of
the line from FG was 32km and was serviced by two RM's or mixed trains most
days.

This information is from Rail Enthusiast Guide To the Brisbane Region.

I will post further info in the next day or two.

Hope this helps

Mark Nolan

"Roy Wilke" <roywilke@notabitlikeanisp.net.au> wrote in message
bQSo6.2$gv7.127101@news.interact.net.au">news:bQSo6.2$gv7.127101@news.interact.net.au...
> There's a fair bit of location-specific information on the Camp Mountain
> section of this line in the newspapers of early May, 1947 (articles
covering
> the Camp Mountain Labor Day Picnic Rail Disaster of 1947).
>
>
> "Mr Smith" <gard@bigpond.com> wrote in message
> jnHo6.8434$v5.32238@newsfeeds.bigpond.com">news:jnHo6.8434$v5.32238@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> > (QLD) Ferny Grove to Dayboro.
> > Does anyone have more information and/or photos of this line before it
> > closed on 30 June 1955*.
> > And if known, why it closed ?(wash-a-way, act of parliament, low
> patronage,
> > etc)
> > What sort of terrain did it encounter ?(i.e. was it steep, just hilly ,
> very
> > curved and/or other)
> > With many thanks, Mr Smith.
> >
> > * - Information contained in book "Australian Railway routes 1854-2000"
> >
> >
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