Millmerran railway line

The Millmerran railway line is a 71 kilometre long branch railway in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.

Line at Southbrook, 2014
Millmerran railway line
71km
 Graincorp siding
70km
 Millmerran
59km
 Yandilla
56km
 Condamine River
53km
 Pampas
50km
 Condamine River (north arm)
47km
 Brookstead
42km
 Cecilvale
39km
 Yarranlea
26km
 Pittsworth
25km
 Pittsworth East
22km
 Broxburn
18km
 Greenhills
16km
 Southbrook
9km
 Umbriam
6km
 The Hollows
0km
 Southern Line from Wyreema

History
Believed to be the opening of the Millmerran section, 1911. Note the incomplete station building (no roof) behind the loco
RM55 and trailer pause at Pittsworth Station on a special train to Millmerran to Celebrate the Centenary of the opening of the line to Pittsworth, September 1987

The Queensland Parliament approved a railway line to link Pittsworth with the east via the Southern railway line from Toowoomba in October 1885.

The line branches off the Southern line in the township of Wyreema (then called Beauaraba) 17 km south of the major regional city of Toowoomba and opened on 19 September 1887. The Southern line branched from Gowrie Junction until the opening of the Drayton Deviation from Toowoomba direct to Wyreema in 1915.

Stops were constructed en route to Pittsworth at The Hollows, Umbiram, Southbrook, Green Hills and Broxburn.

An extension to the agricultural centre of Millmerran via Murlaggan, Yarranlea, Cecilvale, Brookstead, Pampas and Yandilla was approved in November 1909 and opened for business on 18 October 1911. Much of the line closely parallels the Gore Highway.

Grain traffic was substantial and has been the branch lifeblood all along. A rail motor service operated between 1928 and 1969. As occurred elsewhere, road transport took over much of the business with the result that only spasmodic grain transport remains.

The line was closed following the 2010–11 Queensland floods.[1]

Current line standards

The line is laid with 30kg/m rail with an axle load of 15.75 tonnes. The maximum grade is 1 in 50 (2%) and the minimum radius curves are 160m. The line speed is 50km/h to Brookstead, and 30km/h beyond.

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See also

References
  1. "Springborg slams line closure". The Chronicle. Toowoomba Newspapers. 11 November 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
  • "Kerr, John (1990), Triumph of narrow gauge : a history of Queensland Railways, Boolarong Publications, ISBN 978-0-86439-102-5
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