Great Northern Railway (Mt Isa line)

This article is about the Australian railway. For other railways with the same name, see Great Northern Railway.

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QR loco 1501 hauls a special train across the 1960s era Burdekin River bridge, September 1989. The original 1882, now disused bridge is in the foreground.
Celebration train for the extension to Richmond, 1904
Train crossing a bridge at Homestead, situated between Charters Towers and Pentland ~1925
View of Julia Creek ~1928. Views of the Railway Station at Julia Creek looking east towards Richmond. A steam train is travelling towards Mount Isa. A.J. Smith's store can be seen on the left of the image (Description supplied with photograph)
Hughenden mail train arrives at Pentland Railway Station, 1929
Greeting the official train at Mount Isa 1929
Train arriving at Mount Isa, 1931
Arrival of the weekly Mail train, Mount Isa, 1931
Departure of the Mount Isa train ~1937
Looking over Mount Isa from the mine, 1953

The Great Northern Railway is a 1067 mm gauge railway line in Queensland, Australia. The line stretches nearly 1,000 kilometres linking the port city of Townsville, Australia to the mining town of Mount Isa in north-west Queensland. Along with a passenger service called the Inlander, it is a major freight route connecting the Mount Isa Mines to the Port of Townsville. In 2010, the line moved 5.8 million tonnes of cargo, and this is expected to increase significantly in coming years.[1]

  1. ^ Mount Isa System Rail Infrastructure Master Plan Archived 6 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine Queensland Rail, retrieved 25 December 2011