Theebine is a small town and

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split between the Gympie Region and the Fraser Coast Region, both in

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, Australia.

Geography

The town is located north of the Queensland's capital city,

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. Most of the locality and the town is within Gympie Region with only a small area in the north-east in the Fraser Coast Region. The western boundary of the locality is the Mary River. The North Coast railway line passes through the locality from south to north with the

Theebine railway station Theebine railway station (formerly Kilkivan Junction) is a closed railway station on the North Coast railway line of Queensland, Australia at Theebine. Slightly south of the railway station is the junction between the main North Coast line and ...

serving the town. The former Kingaroy railway line (later the Nanango railway line) branched at Theebine with the Dickabram railway station () located in Theebine just before the

Dickabram Bridge Dickabram Bridge is a heritage-listed road-and-rail bridge over the Mary River between Miva and Theebine, both in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. It was the major bridge on the Kingaroy railway line. It was designed by Henry Char ...

over the Mary River.

History

The town was originally established to service the railway junction where the

Kingaroy line The Nanango railway line was a narrow-gauge branch railway located in Queensland, Australia. On 31 October 1882, parliament approved the construction of a branch line from Theebine (then called Kilkivan Junction) west to Kilkivan after gold a ...

branched from the North Coast railway line. The Kingaroy to Theebine railway, opened in December 1904, was used for agriculture and commercial freight as well as transporting passengers and was one of the first branch lines built in Queensland. Formerly Kilkivan Junction, it was re-named by the Railways Department as Theebine on 23 May 1910, using a

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word, dhil-bvain indicating the

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, Ceratodus Forsteri. The Theebine Hotel was first built in 1909 and was known as the Kilkivan Junction Hotel. The Kilkivan Junction Provisional School opened in 1889 and became Kilkivan Junction State School on 1 Jan 1909. In 1910 it was renamed Theebine State School. The Theebine to Kingaroy line was officially closed in early 2010. In the 2011 census, Theebine had a population of 182 people.

Heritage listings

Theebine has a number of

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sites, including: *

, across the Mary River

Attractions

The town is best known for the restored Theebine Hotel, a tourist attraction.

Education

Theebine State School is a government co-educational primary school (P-6) at 631 Scrub Road. In 2015, it had an enrolment of 5 students with 1 teacher and 2 non-teaching staff (1 equivalent full-time).

Gallery

File:Dickabram_Bridge.jpg, Dickabram Bridge File:Theebine Masonic Lodge.JPG, Masonic lodge File:Theebine Uniting Church.JPG, Uniting church

References

External links

{{authority control Towns in Queensland Gympie Region Fraser Coast Region Localities in Queensland