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Pronunciation of these stations is hilarious!

Very nice work! Great job! Looks amazing, learnt a lot! :)

I always love these kinds of videos as I get to learn about rail in cities I will probably never visit

This video was well worth the work, the extra detail makes this so much better than the other cities!

South Bank station was called vulture Street station, it was renamed south Bank station when south Bank was built after expo 88.

Interesting to see the construction of the system, its decline during the 50's and 60's when rail was seen as outmoded, then revitalisation with electrification from the 70's to 80's and new extensions from the 90's to present.

I remember the electrification upgrade of the Gympie line. The railway line ran past my school at Cooroy, and as a year 1 at lunchtime I used to go watch them constructing the upgrade.

Tennyson line for passengers closed but the railway line still exists when there is track work or a broken down train.

I moved to Sydney, great to see how the network has changed while I was away

Thank you very much for this important information on the social history of Brisbane's Suburban Rail Network. [from Melb]

Poor old Doboy railway station (between Murarrie and Hemmant) didn't even get a mention nor did the Normanby railway station (between Roma St and the Exhibition).

Correction, The Wooloongabba branch line was closed in approx 1970 when the Southeast freeway was built, although maybe 1km remained near Park Road used as sidings for some years.

You learn something new each day, thank you for this video :))

Great video. I lived on the Pinkenba line and watched it get closed. It was quite a loss but everyone was happy to see it re-opened shortly after. It would be good to see the full line re opened and extended for the new cruise ship terminal.

I am soo happy this video was made, I keep watching it :)

Gloucester Street station is also before Park Road station.

Just before you guys comment on any minor details being wrong, understand this overall thing behind the scenes was hell to edit and put together, so please be mindful of that. Every project will always have minor details being a little off, I'll try to minimise it, but it's never a guarantee with major project like these ones. ^-^ Hope you enjoyed it regardless.

Nice work! As you read out the station names I was a bit surprised to realise that I'd used all of these lines (except Redcliffe Pennininsula) and most of these stations at least once over the years. It's a pity that the Redcliffe Penninsula Line didn't quite get all the way to Redcliffe - I was working there in 1986 and we had a small celebration to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the proposal to extend a line to Redcliffe. It only took 130 years to actually lay the track!

This video missed the Beaudesert Line from Bethania Station which operated from 1888 - 2004. Also the Cunungra line from Logan Village, operating from 1915 - 1955, although that was a private tramline used to transport timber. Great video otherwise!

Lovely work with the graphics

Exactly what I needed. I now know that my little station - Trinder Park was built before the much larger Woodridge station - only 600 metres further down the line. For Queensland's 'faster rail' - Queensland's department of Transport and Main Roads [TMR] are to remove my neighbours house and put four railway tracks between me and the Trinder Park Aged Care facility. It would ruin natural wetlands and two housing areas. The community has suggested tunnels under the crest on the west of the existing railway corridor. TMR's plans will interfere with over 300 homes plus their neighbours, and move the Trinder Park station and parking onto the wetland reserve - where fewer people are. It will also cut off a main through road, busy in peak hours. Logan City, tacked together from various dispersed communities - has 340,000 population - yet a handful of railway stations. The Beaudesert line runs through Logan, as well as the Sydney to Brisbane interstate line - that has no stops in Queensland before Roma St station. I've got medical conditions - and live between Logan and Kyogle houses. If you can't drive - you're stuffed - in the Northern Rivers - or even between Logan Central - and Beaudesert Rd. where my sister lives. Did you notice how rail in the Greater Brisbane region/SEQ grows and then shrinks and then grows a little. After 30 years closing the Gold Coast branches, they start rebuilding one line towards the Coolangatta/Gold Coast Airport - and it stops for 13 years - at Varsity Lakes. Traffic is standstill around this area at peak times. Brisbane via the originally called South Coast branch line to Tweed Heads, NSW was offered to be converted to standard gauge by Queensland government - to connect with NSW' Murwillumbah 'branch' line [it was built before it was connected to Sydney -as an independent line - Brisbane is only 100km from the state border.] Queensland state premier, Anna Bligh, was going to 'fast track' the Gold Coast line to Coolangatta Airport by the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Twelve years ago, we could have had all three rail lines greeting international visitors at Coolangatta airport. [Queensland Rail, The Gold Coast tram line and NSW rail] The Gold Coast is Australia's fastest growing non-capital city, Northern Rivers is Australia's third most visited region, and traffic is huge crossing the border - but the two states at war - won't join up with rail on the coast. There ripping up the Murwillumbah line going through Byron Bay - for elitist cyclists. It's called rail trails - and not even the Lismore floods will stop the destruction. Thousands of lives are at risk, people who once were able to catch a train to the coast [Byron] or go to Brisbane for a few hours - and return home - up to 1990. My carer from Murrumbeena in Melbourne took the last daytime train to Kyogle from Sydney - going through about 10 am. Now, the only train is at 2.47am to Brisbane. Something stinks badly - and it isn't seen in the media.

Excellent video man! Excellent! Thanks for sharing this amazing treasure

Great video - thank you

This was really handy, for the electrification dates, thanks!

Tennyson Loop remains active to this day, linking western freight lines to the harbour and proving alternative routes for the Gold Coast and Cleveland lines to northern lines if the lines between Park Road and Roma St are unavailable for any reason.

Ahh, you missed Doboy station which closed in the early 90s (between Hemmant and Murrarie)! Also North Boondall was the original Boondall station before being renamed in 1986 with the opening of Boondall Station in line with the opening of the Brisbane Entertainment Centre next door. There was a Badgen station too (between Birkdale and Wellington Point) that was not rebuilt when the line reopened in the mid 80s. Nyanda (between Sailsbury and Rocklea) was deleted in the 70s with the electrification (although the platforms still exist in some format with heavy grass growth).

Rather interesting! I need to revisit brisbane soon because the borders opened

"Exhibition Station Closed in August 2022. Normanby Station was Closed somewhere in the 1960s to be converted to the Busway Station. The Part of the Exhibition Loop is used by Regional Queensland Rail. Also, Dutton Park used to be Called Boggo Junction. When the Wolloongabba Branch Line was around before the 1980s. The Line Terminated at Stanley Street. For some Reason, you have forgot to add street after Stanley. With Cross River Rail Opening in 2026 it will run through exhibition then into the tunnels until Boggo Road. Wooloongabba will get Heavy Rail Again. also, you forgot the Colour. The Doomben Line was Purple which ran from Roma Street or Park Road to Doomben".

Thanks,. Excellent!! Well done.

Great info.

Woodridge station was a good station before it was opened to the public

Those great maps were vital to the narrative. Well done!

One little bone to pick (still watching tho) is the fact Sandgate was terminus and went to Shorncliffe in 1897. The now Sandgate was originally known as Shorncliffe. Gloucester Street was between Park Road and South Bank. South Bank opened as Vulture Street and didn’t change name til 2001 just prior to the opening of the Airport line.

Very very good I was hoping to see some of the other sections of railway that closed (Brisbane valley line) But I did learn something I didn’t know like Mayne station and no idea that there was stations beyond Ferny Grove. Thank you very interesting.

It will also be need to be updated again soon. With Cross River rail being built from Dutton Park to Exibition station.

Well done! Nice and simple! Thanks.👍

Great video

That was brilliant - well done!

Many of the intermediate stations did not open with the line. For example, the only intermediate station between Ipswich and Grandchester was Walloon. Karrabin was 1877, Rosewood 1866. (I think you have Thomas Street, Wulkuraka, and Thagoona correct. I really should watch again to be sure.) Interesting factoid about Walloon: it's the longest surviving station that's still in the same place, with the same name. Ipswich moved in 1877, and Grandchester was named Bigge's Camp until 1866 (and closed in 1993). But these are minor details, and don't really detract all that much. Other minor details: Mayne and Albion opened with the Sandgate line in 1882. Whinstaines and Doomben were replaced by a station in between in 1976. It was called Whinstaines-Doomben until 1986 when it was renamed just Doomben. Here's a fix for a future editions: Dakabin is on the North Coast Line (or Caboolture Line), not South Coast. Vision is correct, audio isn't. Overall, good work: It looks like it's very time consuming, and needs patience.

Gloucester is pronounced “gloster”. Pinkenba is pronounced “pink-en-bah”, emphasis on pink.

Nice. I got a recommendation for the next part of this series: Newcastle.

Excellent 👍. Next, history of the types of trains in Brisbane👍✌️

ok as a Queenslander that travels on the network, i say that this is quite accurate. i didn't know that the network was this old tho, but one thing is that the Tennyson connection is still listed on the network maps so that might still be running, plus you kind of forgot the Glink line down at the gold coast from Helensvale to southport.

Note: Normanby Station (Exhibition Line) was shut in 1966.

damn bro keep making these vids its very well edited

Wul-ka-ru-ka! Wool-lon-gabba Than-goo-na Love the vid!

Great video and very well presented. I too learnt something new. Thank you for your hard work. I enjoyed your video.

the "sunshine coast line" is more the part beyond Caboolture & you have to change trains at Ipswich for stations beyond to Rosewood

These little vids are very interesting. Looking forward to Adelaide. Keen to know about the Stockade line

Good work

Very good , My Husband's Great Uncle GC Willcocks and Grandfather R Willcocks were the contractors on the Cleveland Line and also built a number of contracts on the North-coast line as well as other contracts around Queensland

The Doomben line should be extended to Corinda via Yeerongpilly to give Ipswich Springfield passengers access to Cross River Rail stations without going via Roma Street.

Love it! What a very educational video to watch!

9:47 I'm pretty sure the gold coast/airport train stopped at Yeerongpilly until sometime in the 2000s where it was changed to Cooper's plains and then Changed to altandi

I've been making a brisbane train map recently, but as its not my home city, its kinda hard to make, the maps can be a bit confusing, this helps so much!

Many RU-vid videos about the Earnest Junction tunnel have also been made, though mainly about the odd things that are suppose to happen there.

Stupid how they got rid of the Southport/GC train line.. plus getting rid of the line to Samford/Dayboro was very short sighted also..

Morningside Train Station was called Bulimba in 1890

Excellent video. Explained to me why when I rented in Clayfield from 1996 - 1998 I never had access to Clayfield station. Wish it was open because I lived on both Stuckey Rd and Gellibrand St and had to use Eagle Junction station.

You’re missing some stations near Grandchester

Very interesting!

What happened to the Dayboro line and the Coolangatta line? Would be cool if we still had them.

How come there are no trains that stop at all stations from the city to Caboolture or from the city to Redcliffe anymore but there are still trains that stop at all stations from the city to Ipswich and from the city to Springfield which are on the same lines as Caboolture and Redcliffe?

Hi thanks for the great presentation. You didn’t mention the Bulimba line at Tenerife.

hi mate really really enjoy all your work did you know nyanda station on beenleigh line closed in 1978

You missed the second stage, when in 1867 the Ipswich to Grandchester line was extended all the way up the Toowoomba Range to Toowoomba, which has been described as a more complex project than putting man on the moon.

Now that's a good video

Mayne was closed sometime after 76 to 78 because I worked for qr back then

Small error, but Gloucester street was between Park Road and South Bank.

The "Australian language needs a lot of work here, every station is just about said incorrectly"

A few things. Mayne Station and the original Bowen Hills were closed in 1973. The platform for the present Bowen Hills was built in 1971,but the station not opened until 1973. Fortitude Valley station was called Brunswick St for most of its existence, before re-naming in the 2000's. The Wooloongabba line (QR spelt it with one "l") closed December 19,1969. Not mentioned is the Belmont Shire Tramway which junctioned with the Cleveland Line at Norman Park and ran to Belmont via Seven Hills,Camp Hill and Carina. It operated from 1912 to 1926. At least one track of the line from Corinda to Yeerongpilly had been electrified in 1982, as it was in use for electric trains during the Commonwealth Games That year.

cant believe they removed the samford train.. id totally take the go card to there .... but i doubt they ran trains half hourly back then? its super hard for me to find any bus timetables or train timetables that arent current and certainly not back to 90's when i was youngster or far back when the samford train would have been running.

Normanby station is supposed to be on the translink bus line. Normanby is not a train station.

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Bro I can’t stop watching this I love it Also why didn’t you announce granchester closing? Awesome video keep it up!

Criminal that the line to Coolangatta was ripped up, when you see the shambolic state of the M1 every day

The only real fault I could find is that you mixed the locations of Gloucestor Street and Park Road stations up. I know from growing up and going to school in South Brisbane for my high school years. Park Road sat in the shadow of Boggo Road jail for years, just after the Beenleigh line interchange yards, while Gloucester Street was closer to Vulture Street Station (now South Bank), before the rail tunnels between Gloucester Street and Vulture Street.

My question is why did they close the stations since Dayboro to camp mountain?🤔🤔 can someone explain me ?

Nice! Could you please do this for the future of the network, with the new tunnel?

The South Port line used to go all down the Gold Coast and crossed the NSW border at one stage. It's a shame car use saw it shut and sold off for development. Also Queensland didn't electrify till quite late but when they did they went all out. Longest electrified network in Australia and probably rivals the entire US.

I’m surprised how many times they opened and closed thornside

What year did Granchester Station Closed??

4:04 this gap between South Brisbane and the northern Roma Street & Milton stations must seem so odd… if you didn’t know the Brisbane River divides the lines. The join Corinda (?) to Tennyson to Yerongpilly was probably south enough to avoid the river bends

You forgot monkland station, I know that the mary valley rattler runs past it but it was once part of the sunshine coast line. But when the original Gympie station was replaced by Gympie north in 1989, monkland also closed.

There’s also the Gold Coast GLink now from Helensvale to Broadbeach, commenced in 2016.

What the hell happened in the 1960s Qld.. So many Train station closed permanently 😣😣

Shows to me the backwardness of some Queensland governments during different generations. Not saying all as obviously some had to mop up the backward ones. Ripping up the Gold Coast lines and the gabba connections,as they seemed to serve Brisbane and the coast well was just silly. Thorneside was a disaster. Open shut open shut . I'm 45 and I remember the red cattle cars with the window that could open with big long bench seats that only went to lota . If I remember correctly to kind of headed toward thorneside a bit ,not the whole way,to swap the the mighty Clyde's to the other end. Now I shall recite the gaythorne to dayboro stations to my 90 year old dad who grew up in Gaythorne . Thanks for the info mate,I love all things QR . This is delightful. Cheers

No mention of the Brisbane Valley Line that branched off of the main line and went all the way through to Yarraman

What happened to the Kilcoy Woodford branch you missed that ??????it was pulled up in 1964 ????

Bigges Camp! Not Grandchester. It wasn’t renamed Grandchester until many years later.

Where is the narrator from? He can't pronounce a lot of the names in the video. 🙄

Interesting video. Though the pronunciations of some stations are off. And unfortunately you didn't include the Beenleigh to Beaudesert line.

What do you think about the Train Man?

You forgot to add lines to Gold coast

Why are suburban rail networks in Australia radial in nature?? Doesn't this hamper cross suburb commute??

Geez 🙄 that is close.

This video will have to be updated once the Cross River Rail is completed.

Brisbane valley line?

The Springfield and Redcliffe lines are the only ones to be electrified right from the start.

Almost nothing has changed in 5 years