Mount Edwards railway line

Mount Edwards railway line
Legend
 25km Mount Edwards
 19km Aratula
 17km Morwincha Watering Station
 14km Fassifern Valley
 12km Warumkarie
 9km Kalbar
 4km Waraperta
0km Dugandan Line at Munbilla

The Mount Edwards railway line was a branch railway in the Scenic Rim region of South East Queensland, Australia. The lines serves a number of small towns in the Fassifern Valley.

The 25 km long line branched off the Dugandan line at the rural locality of Munbilla 38 km south of the city of Ipswich. The line then proceeded in a generally south-westerly direction to the locality of Mount Edwards near the village of Aratula.

The line was intended to form part of a via recta (Latin, "straight route") between Brisbane and Sydney via the break-of-gauge border town of Wallangarra. Before the completion of the New South Wales North Coast Line in 1930, rail traffic between the two state capitals travelled west from Brisbane to Toowoomba then south to Wallangarra via Warwick. The via recta was to incorporate the Mount Edwards line and the Maryvale line on the other side of the Great Dividing Range to produce a direct route southwest from Brisbane to Warwick, shaving around 95 km off the interstate journey. However, the via recta was never completed.[1]

The Mount Edwards line opened in 1922 and closed in 1960.[1][2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Southern Downs Steam Railway (2009). "'Via recta' - The line that never was". Retrieved 25 October 2009.
  2. ↑ QR Limited. "Rail as foremost mode of travel". Retrieved 25 October 2009.
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