Eagle Farm railway station is an abandoned passenger
station
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on the Pinkenba railway line, only (4.2 mi) from the
Brisbane central business district
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; from
Central station
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by rail.
History
Opened in 1952 as Baraini railway station, it was renamed a few months later to Airport railway station
since it was located near the
old Brisbane Airport at
Eagle Farm
Eagle Farm is an eastern industrial suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Eagle Farm had a population of 0 people.
The neighbourhood of Whinstanes is located in Eagle Farm ().
Geography
Eagle Farm is situated nor ...
before it
moved to its current location, north, at the demolished suburb
Cribb Island
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. Airport station was unpopular with airport passengers, mostly due to very infrequent services and significant walking distance to the airport terminal. It was renamed Eagle Farm railway station in 1988 along with the electrification of the line, only until a few metres past the station.
All passenger services on the line were suspended on 27 September 1993 by the
Goss
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Labor Party state government
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rationalisation of the rail network throughout
Queensland
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, with the suspending or closing of unprofitable and under-utilised rail lines.
In 1998 the
line
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re-opened to passenger services, but only operated as far as
Doomben, the station immediately prior, with connecting bus services to the former railway stations between Doomben and
Pinkenba
Pinkenba is a town and eastern coastal suburb within the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Pinkenba had a population of 368 people.
Geography
Pinkenba is a long narrow strip of land on the northern side of the Brisbane River ...
.
Current status
The Eagle Farm railway station building was demolished in early 2012.
Replacement bus service
The bus stop for the replacement
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bus service (303) is near Eagle Farm station in
Kingsford Smith Drive.
Original Eagle Farm station
The original Eagle Farm railway station opened in 1897 just 90 metres past Airport, west of the corner of Want Street and Schneider Road, behind the
Ford Motor Company of Australia
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site, today home of G. James glass. It closed in 1977 with the opening of Whinstanes-Doomben station.
See also
*
Queensland Rail City network
The Queensland Rail Citytrain network, provides urban, suburban and interurban electric passenger railway services in South East Queensland, Australia.
History
The first railway in Queensland did not run to Brisbane, but ran from Ipswich to ...
*
TransLink (Queensland)
References
{{Disused railway stations in Queensland
Disused railway stations in Brisbane
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1952
Railway stations closed in 1993