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Mount Edwards railway line

				25km	Mount Edwards railway station
				19km	Aratula railway station
				17km	Morwincha railway station
				14km	Fassifern Valley railway station
				12km	Warumkarie railway station
				9km	Kalbar railway station
				4km	Waraperta railway station
				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 first stage of the Mount Edwards line opened from Munbilla to Engelsburg (now Kalbar) on 17 April 1916, but the next stage to Mount Edwards was not completed until 7 October 1922.^[1] The line closed on 1 November 1960.^[2]^[3]

Geography

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.

History

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.^[2]

Route

Stations on the Mount Edwards railway line
Distance from Ipswich	Name	Coordinates	Altitude	Notes
	Junction with Dugundan line	27°52′17″S 152°39′23″E / 27.8714°S 152.6563°E / -27.8714; 152.6563 (Junction with Mount Edwards line)		Immediately south-west of Munbilla railway station.^[4]^[5]
26 miles 56 chains (43.0 km)	Warperta	27°54′12″S 152°37′58″E / 27.90333°S 152.63278°E / -27.90333; 152.63278	247 feet (75 m)	On Munbillla Road (now in Kents Lagoon).^[4]^[5]^[6]
29 miles 39 chains (47.5 km)	Kalbar	27°56′21″S 152°37′15″E / 27.93924°S 152.62090°E / -27.93924; 152.62090 (Kalbar railway station (former))	262 feet (80 m)	At the western end of Railway Street in Kalbar.^[4]^[5]
31 miles 34 chains (50.6 km)	Warumkarie	27°57′26″S 152°36′39″E / 27.95715°S 152.61082°E / -27.95715; 152.61082	308 feet (94 m)	On Warumkarie Road (now in the south of Kalbar).^[4]^[5]
32 miles 60 chains (52.7 km)	Fassifern Valley	27°58′23″S 152°35′59″E / 27.97297°S 152.59979°E / -27.97297; 152.59979 (Fassifern Valley railway station)	295 feet (90 m)	On Lake Moogerah Road.^[4]^[5]
34 miles 30 chains (55.3 km)	Morwincha	27°58′23″S 152°34′38″E / 27.97299°S 152.57734°E / -27.97299; 152.57734	312 feet (95 m)	On the bend in Morwincha Road.^[4]
36 miles 2 chains (58.0 km)	Aratula	27°58′57″S 152°33′16″E / 27.98252°S 152.55450°E / -27.98252; 152.55450 (Aratula railway station (former))	357 feet (109 m)	At the eastern end of Sawmill Road.^[4]^[5]
39 miles 70 chains (64.2 km)	Mount Edwards	28°01′17″S 152°30′57″E / 28.02136°S 152.51578°E / -28.02136; 152.51578	621 feet (189 m)	Terminus, on the southern corner of the Cunningham Highway and Lake Moogerah Road^[4]^[5]

References

^ Kerr, John (1990). Triumph of narrow gauge : a history of Queensland Railways. Boolarong Publications. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-86439-102-5.
^ ^a ^b Southern Downs Steam Railway (2009). "'Via recta' – The line that never was". Archived from the original on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2009.
^ QR Limited. "Rail as foremost mode of travel". Archived from the original on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Queensland Two Mile series sheet 2m38" (Map). Queensland Government. 1955. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Flinders" (Map). Queensland Government. 1927. Archived from the original on 29 May 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
^ "Warperta – railway station (now absent) in Scenic Rim Region (entry 39340)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 4 January 2022.

External links

[kerr19902-1] Kerr, John (1990). Triumph of narrow gauge : a history of Queensland Railways. Boolarong Publications. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-86439-102-5.

[SDSR-2] Southern Downs Steam Railway (2009). "'Via recta' – The line that never was". Archived from the original on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2009.

[3] QR Limited. "Rail as foremost mode of travel". Archived from the original on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2009.

[:0-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Queensland Two Mile series sheet 2m38" (Map). Queensland Government. 1955. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2022.

[:1-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Flinders" (Map). Queensland Government. 1927. Archived from the original on 29 May 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.

[6] "Warperta – railway station (now absent) in Scenic Rim Region (entry 39340)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 4 January 2022.

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