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(Click here for Queensland private site links.)
(Click here for Queensland corporate site links.)
(Click here for other Australian heritage and private site links.)
(Click here for worldwide sites with pages on Queensland and Australian Railways links.)
Links to Queensland Railway Specific Sites.
Heritage/Tourist Railway Sites.
- Australian Railway Historical Society Queensland Division is a volunteer non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation of Queensland's Rail History. You can even be a driver for a day with your choice of a steam or diesel loco! Check the site for details.
- The Workshops Rail Museum - Ipswich This site contains information on The Workshops Rail Museum. One of the finest railway museums in Australia, it is located in Ipswich, birthplace of Queensland Railways.
- Queensland Pioneer Steam Railway (QPSR) is another volunteer non-profit rail organisation running steam and diesel motive power at Swanbank near Ipswich Queensland. This site contains information about the organisation, operating times etc.
- ATRQ - Association Tourist Railways Queensland The Association's members are operators of heritage and tourist railways or other organisations based in Queensland, with an interest in the preservation and operation of rail heritage for all Australians, and visitors to our country.
- Mary Valley Heritage Railway (MVHR) based in Gympie Queensland runs "The Valley Rattler" train from Gympie to Imbil and all places in between hauled by ex QR C17 class locomotives.
- The Southern Downs Steam Railway. Their station is based on the site of Warwick's former Locomotive Depot, before closing in 1969. Now called the Warwick Railway Precinct, it is the site of C17 locomotive and carriage restoration, as well as housing historical documents and artifacts.
- Darling Downs Historical Rail Society Ltd. Toowoomba based, the Darling Downs Historical Rail Society Ltd (a not-for-profit company) was formed to develop the economic base of the Darling Downs and to preserve some of it's railway history.
- The Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Society (ANGRMS) Situated at Woodford, just north west of Brisbane, ANGRMS is dedicated to the preservation of locomotives and rolling stock used on the Queensland sugar mill tramways.
- The Brisbane Tramway Museum. In June 1968, The Brisbane City Council announced its intention to close down its tramways and change over to an all bus transport system. A public meeting was soon convened with a view to preserving a representative collection of the city's tramcars. Thus the Brisbane Tramway Museum Society was born.
- Darling Downs Model Railway Club This club is located in Old Maudsley House in the grounds of Baillie Henderson Hospital in Toowoomba.
Railway Enthusiast's Private Sites.
- QROTI The information site for rail in Queensland, featuring QR (Queensland Rail) and Airtrain.
- QRIG.org An extremely comprehensive database on Queensland Railways maintained by Dean Stalker and the team. Incorporates the QRIG user group.
- John Mc's Home Page a private site based on railway operations around North Western Queensland.
- Kim Thurlow's Queensland Railway's Portfolio another private site, with particularly comprehensive information on Queensland Steam and early Diesel Electric eras.
- John van den Bosch's QR site based on Railway operations around Gladstone Queensland.
Railway Corporate Sites.
- QR's Official Site. All sorts of info, on all different aspects of Queensland's original and Australia's only remaining government owned railway.
- Pacific National Queensland Pacific National Queensland (PNQ) opened their Brisbane office in November 2003, and commenced revenue running of trains in Queensland on 19th March 2005.
- Airtrain Site. Official site of Airtrain, the company operating the rail link from Brisbane Airport to Brisbane City.
Links to other Australian heritage and private sites.
- Australian Steam Preserved Locos Downunder provides a listing of surviving Australian steam locomotives, including location and status. Locomotives are listed by their state of origin.
- Locopage is a Web site dedicated to Australian diesel and electric locomotives with a very comprehensive list of these locomotives from the past and present .
- Railpage Australia and New Zealand "The premier Australian rail server
Wasting time and bandwidth since 1992. "
- Commonwealth Railways Pages This site has various bits of information about the Commonwealth Railways, Australian National Railways, Great Southern Railways and the South Australian Railways.
- The Bellarine Peninsula Railway The Bellarine Peninsula Railway operates a collection of heritage trains from around Australia on 16 km of restored track from historic Queenscliff to Drysdale on Victoria's beautiful Bellarine Peninsula near Geelong. Their collection includes a number of examples exQR rollingstock and Loco PB15-454.
- The Goulburn Crookwell Heritage Railway The Goulburn Crookwell Heritage Railway is a non-profit organisation whose aim is the protection, preservation, promotion and restoration of the historic Goulburn to Crookwell branch line. New South Wales, Australia.
- Australian Railway Historical Society. Redfern. N.S.W. Founded in May 1933. ARHS is dedicated to the study, restoration, preservation and running of the historic railways of Australia.
- The 3801 An Historic Australian train. Learn more about it from here and even book a tour!
- Puffing Billy Railway One of Australia's most famous tourist railways! This century-old steam train is still running on its original mountain track from Belgrave to Gembrook in the scenic Dandenong Ranges, just 40 km east of Melbourne, Victoria.
- The Zig Zag Tourist Railway in Lithgow New South Wales, Australia. Operates a variety of ex QR rollingstock.
- The Dorrigo Steam Railway and Museum Home to the largest collection of preserved railway vehicles and memorabilia from the various Government and private railways of New South Wales. Though not open to the public yet, the web site provides information on the progress of the Museum.
- Glenreagh Mountain Railway Glenreagh railway line is situated 40 minutes drive from Coffs Harbour. Opened in 1924, the line climbs 736 m in 69 kms via steep grades, sharp curves, 15 bridges and 2 tunnels.
Random pages found on Queensland Railways from sites around the World
- The Signal Box Extensive information on signallling infrastructure in Australia including Queensland.
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