branch railway
A branch line is a phrase used in railway terminology to denote a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line. A very short branch line may be called a spur line.
Industrial spur
An industr ...
in
South East Queensland
South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, metropolitan, political and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million people out of the state's population of 5.1 million. T ...
, Australia. It connected
Logan Village
Logan Village is a semi-rural town and locality in the City of Logan, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Logan Village had a population of 4,417 people. Logan Village was once known as the head of the navigable Logan River. Its i ...
Canungra
Canungra is a rural town and locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Canungra had a population of 1,229 people.
Geography
Located in South East Queensland, Canungra is situated in the Gold Coast hint ...
.
Canungra was the centre of regional timber production from the 1860s with a large sawmill completed in 1885. The private Laheys Tramway, carrying timber from nearby forests to Canungra, opened in 1900. By 1911 there were 18 bullock teams moving sawn timber between Canungra and the railway at Logan Village.
A railway from
Logan Village
Logan Village is a semi-rural town and locality in the City of Logan, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Logan Village had a population of 4,417 people. Logan Village was once known as the head of the navigable Logan River. Its i ...
to Canungra was first proposed in 1900 with a survey commissioned in 1908. In 1911 the
Queensland Government
The Queensland Government is the democratic administrative authority of the Australian state of Queensland. The Government of Queensland, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy was formed in 1859 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended fr ...
decided to construct the Canungra branch line from
Logan Village railway station
Logan may refer to:
Places
* Mount Logan (disambiguation)
Australia
* Logan (Queensland electoral district), an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly
* Logan, Victoria, small locality near St. Arnaud
* Logan City, local gove ...
on the Beaudesert line to Canungra. Construction began in 1913 and the line opened to Canungra on 2 July 1915. "The Canungra Branch" ''
Pacific War
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after the Jungle Warfare Training Centre opened at Canungra in November 1942. Traffic declined after
World War II
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, and the line closed on 1 June 1955.
Route
See also
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Rail transport in Queensland
The rail network in Queensland, Australia, was the first in the world to adopt narrow gauge for a main line, and now the second largest narrow gauge network in the world, consists of:
*the North Coast Line (NCL) extending from Brisbane to R ...