Main Line railway, Queensland

The Main Line is a railway line in South East Queensland, Australia. It was opened in a series of sections between 1865 and 1867. It commences at Roma St Station in Brisbane and extends west 161 km to Toowoomba. It is the first narrow gauge main line constructed in the world. The section of the line from the end of Murphys Creek railway station to the Ruthven Street overbridge, Harlaxton is listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.^[1] The Murphys Creek Railway Complex,^[2] the Lockyer Creek Railway Bridge (Lockyer),^[3] the Lockyer Creek Railway Bridge (Murphys Creek)^[4] and Swansons Rail Bridge^[5] are also heritage listed.

v t e QR Main Line kilometrage from Brisbane Central
km North Coast Line 0.8 Brisbane Roma Street Exhibition line Beenleigh, Cleveland & Gold Coast lines Ipswich and Rosewood suburban line 2.3 Milton 3.5 Auchenflower 4.5 Toowong 6.0 Taringa 7.4 Indooroopilly Indooroopilly Railway and Albert Bridges over Brisbane River 8.5 Chelmer 9.5 Graceville 10.7 Sherwood Yeerongpilly via Tennyson Line (closed to commuter rail) 11.6 Corinda 13.3 Oxley 16.0 Darra Springfield line 20.0 Wacol 21.6 Gailes 23.5 Goodna 26.8 Redbank to Redbank Railway Workshops 29.2 Riverview 30.8 Dinmore 32.2 Ebbw Vale 34.1 Bundamba Swanbank Line 35.5 Booval 37.0 East Ipswich 38.6 Ipswich to Workshops Rail Museum 40.1 Thomas Street Sadliers Crossing bridge over Bremer River 41.6 Wulkuraka Brisbane Valley line 43.9 Karrabin 48.5 Walloon 52.7 Thagoona Ebenezer coal loop Museum Junction 57.0 Rosewood Lanefield Calvert Grandchester Victoria Tunnel Yarongmulu 82.4 Laidley Forest Hill Lawes Eastern Drive 97.2 Gatton Lockyer Creek Grantham Warrego Highway 115.3 Helidon Lockyer Lockyer Creek Murphys Creek Main Range Railway, for details which see Western line Toowoomba Bypass Willowburn Harlaxton New England Hwy Aurizon Yard Gowrie Creek 162 Toowoomba Southern line km