The Rosewood Railway Museum is located near
Rosewood
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True rosewoods
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Queensland
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Australia on the former
railway
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to
Marburg
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first opened in 1909. The museum utilises a station and yard located at
Kunkala as its base.
Operations
History
The Marburg branch opened from Rosewood in 1912 and saw primarily coal traffic for most of its life. As traffic declined the line was slowly closed in sections. Marburg to Birru was the first to close in 1964, followed by Kunkala in 1970, Cabanda in 1973 and to Perry's Knob in 1979. During the 1974 floods, the bridge carrying Rosewood-Marburg road collapsed onto the line, splitting Perry's Knob from Rosewood and cutting the line in half.
In 1984, the
ARHS Queensland Division began work on returning the upper section of the line to service for the purpose of running heritage tours. The station site at Kunkala became the site of what is now the Rosewood Railway Museum.
They began running tours on both the lower and upper sections of the now split railway, opening a new station at Museum Junction in 2004.
Rolling stock
B. Pezet, "The Aramac Tramway Trailer Car - Aramac to Kunkula", Sunshine Express No 241, April 1986, 367-372
References
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External links
* https://www.rosewoodrailway.org.au/
Railway museums in Queensland
Railway stations in Queensland