Buranda railway station is located on the Cleveland line in

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, Australia. It is one of two stations serving the

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suburb of

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, the other being Park Road. West of the station, the line joins the

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via a

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History

Buranda station opened in 1889 as Logan Road, being renamed Buranda in 1917. On 15 July 1996, the Fisherman Islands line to the

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opened to the north of the station. In the early hours of 29 March 2009, the main station building on platform one was destroyed by fire. A 17-year-old man was later charged with one count of arson following the incident.

Services

Buranda is served by Cleveland line services from Shorncliffe, Northgate, Doomben and

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to Cannon Hill, Manly and

Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...

Services by platform

Transport links

Adjacent to the station lies

Buranda busway station Buranda Busway Station is located in Brisbane, Australia serving the suburb of Buranda. It opened on 30 April 2001 when the South East Busway was extended from Woolloongabba to Eight Mile Plains. On 29 August 2011, Buranda became a junction st ...

that is served by

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services.

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Buranda station Buranda is a neighbourhood in the southern Brisbane suburbs of Greenslopes and Woolloongabba in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. The location is an important transport hub for southern Brisbane. Logan Road and Ipswich Road pass ...

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