South Coast railway line, Queensland

South Coast Line
Train at Tweed Heads in 1940
Overview
Owner	Queensland Railways
Service
Operator(s)	Queensland Railways
History
Opened	25 January 1889 (to Southport) 10 August 1903 (to Tweed Heads)
Closed	1 July 1961 (to Tweed Heads) 30 June 1964 (to Southport)
Technical
Line length	73 kilometres
Track gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Route map showing distance (miles and chains) from South Brisbane Legend 0 mi 0 ch 0 km South Brisbane Follows Beenleigh line 24 mi 15 ch 38.93 km Beenleigh Albert River 26 mi 61 ch 43.07 km Stapylton 31 mi 16 ch 50.21 km Ormeau 33 mi 79 ch 54.7 km Pimpana Pimpana Creek 38 mi 35 ch 61.86 km Coomera Coomera River 39 mi 35 ch 63.47 km Oxenford Saltwater Creek 40 mi 56 ch 65.5 km Helensvale Coombabah Creek 44 mi 54 ch 71.9 km Coombabah 46 mi 40 ch 74.83 km Ernest Junction 50 mi 10 ch 80.67 km Southport 48 mi 77 km Molendinar Nerang River 49 mi 11 ch 79.08 km Nerang 53 mi 54 ch 86.38 km Worongary 55 mi 33 ch 89.18 km Mudgeeraba 61 mi 98 km West Burleigh Tallebudgera Creek 62 mi 70 ch 101.19 km Elanora Currumbin Creek 63 mi 79 ch 102.98 km Currumbin 67 mi 16 ch 108.15 km Bilinga 65 mi 46 ch 105.53 km Tugun 68 mi 4 ch 109.52 km Kirra 69 mi 7 ch 111.19 km Coolangatta New South Wales Border Turning wye 69 mi 33 ch 111.71 km Tweed Heads This diagram: view talk edit

The South Coast railway line (also known as the Tweed railway line) was a railway from Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, Australia. The route via the South Coast (now known as the Gold Coast) to Tweed Heads on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. The line operated from 1889 to 1964. Between 1903 and 1961 steam trains ran from Beenleigh to the NSW border.^[1] The Gold Coast railway line re-opened in 1996 along a modified alignment in the north and a new route south but does not extend as far south yet as the South Coast line.