Railway Station at Emu Park, Qld - circa 1908

The North Rockhampton to Emu Park railway line was a branch line of the North Coast railway line in Central Queensland. Australia. It connected

Rockhampton Rockhampton is a city in the Rockhampton Region of Central Queensland, Australia. The population of Rockhampton in June 2021 was 79,967, Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. making it the fourth-largest city in the state outside of the ...

Emu Park Emu Park is a coastal town and locality on the Capricorn Coast located south of Yeppoon in Queensland, Australia. It is within the local government area of Shire of Livingstone (between 2008 and 2013, it was within the Rockhampton Region). In ...

(from the

North Rockhampton railway station North Rockhampton railway station was a railway station in The Common, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. History The railway line from North Rockhampton to Emu Park was officially opened on Saturday 22 December 1888 by Archibald Archer, t ...

to Emu Park railway station).

History

The railway line was officially opened on Saturday 22 December 1888 by

Archibald Archer Archibald Archer M.L.A., J.P., (18 March 1820 – 6 February 1902) was a Queensland politician, a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, and Treasurer of Queensland. He was one of the Archer brothers, an early Queensland pioneering ...

, the local

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for

. The line was long and provided access to the seaside for

, with subsequent lines opening from Nankin Junction to Broadmount (24 km) in 1898 and Sleipner Junction via

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and

Cawarral Cawarral is a rural town and locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Cawarral had a population of 831 people. History Cawarral State School opened on 13 July 1874. In the 2011 census, Cawarral had a ...

to Yeppoon railway station (32 km) in 1909. The line cost £149,829 19s 7d. The Broadmount line closed in 1929, being the first branch line closed by Queensland Rail. The Emu Park - Sleipner Junction section closed in 1964, and the Yeppoon line beyond Lakes Creek in about 2007. Suburban frequency (14/day) services were provided between Rockhampton and the abattoir at Lakes Creek for workers between 1913–1930.

References

{{reflist Railway lines in Queensland Railway lines opened in 1888 Central Queensland 1888 establishments in Australia