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Gailes Station
Gailes may refer to: * Gailes, Queensland Gailes is a suburb of Ipswich in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the Gailes had a population of 1,828 people. Geography The suburb is bounded to the north by the Ipswich Motorway and the Main Line railway and to the west by Wo ..., Australia * ''Gailes Links'', Glasgow Golf Club, near Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland {{Dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gailes, Queensland
Gailes is a suburb of Ipswich in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the Gailes had a population of 1,828 people. Geography The suburb is bounded to the north by the Ipswich Motorway and the Main Line railway and to the west by Woogaroo Creek, a tributary of the Brisbane River. The land use is predominantly residential with a small amount of undeveloped bushland in the south-west of the locality. History In 1823 explorer John Oxley named a local high point ''Dingo Hill'' () which became the local name for the area. This led to a local railway siding to also be named Dingo Hill. On 16 September 1925, the Dingo Hill railway siding was upgraded and renamedGailes railway station (), after the Western Gailes Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland. The suburb of Gailes takes its name from the railway station. The name ''Gailes'' means "overgrown by bog-myrth". Suburban boundary changes in 1986 resulted in the Gailes railway station now being within the suburb of Wacol in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
