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    The Cairns-to-Kuranda Railway is a heritage-listed railway line from the Cairns Region to the Shire of Mareeba, both in Queensland, Australia. It commences...
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    The Kuranda Scenic Railway is a tourist railway service that operates along the heritage-listed Cairns-to-Kuranda railway line. Constructed in 1891, the...
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    operate from here: the Kuranda Scenic Railway and the Savannahlander. The station has two platforms. It is integrated with the Cairns Central Shopping Centre...
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    is 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Cairns, via the Kuranda Range road. It is surrounded by tropical rainforest and adjacent to the Wet Tropics of Queensland...
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    accessed from the Cairns Libraries website. Cairns has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Cairns-to-Kuranda railway line Abbott Street: Dr...
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    popular tourist services, the Kuranda Scenic Railway from Cairns to Kuranda and the multi-day Savannahlander from Cairns to Forsayth, which both incorporate...
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    Freshwater railway station is on the Cairns-to-Kuranda railway line (part of the Tablelands railway line) in Queensland, Australia. It is located at Kamerunga...
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    Savannahlander (category Railway services introduced in 1995)
    Australia Gulflander Kuranda Scenic Railway Thomas, A. (July 2004). "The Savannahlander - Forsayth to Cairns". Australian Railway History: 255–258. "Savannahlander...
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    Redlynch, Queensland (category Suburbs of Cairns)
    Redlynch to Kuranda (16°54′53″S 145°41′29″E / 16.9146°S 145.6914°E / -16.9146; 145.6914 (Cairns-to-Kuranda railway line (southern extent))): Cairns-to-Kuranda...
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  • centre of Kuranda Village Kuranda Fig Tree Avenue Kuranda Range Highway Kuranda Range road Kuranda Scenic Railway, a railway line runs from Cairns, Queensland...
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    Kuranda was surveyed in 1888 in anticipation of development which would accompany the arrival of the Cairns-to-Kuranda railway line. Kuranda railway station...
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  • Kuranda railway station. The engine and tender derailed on a sharp curve and hit a rock wall, the engine falling on its side, causing the boiler to burst...
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  • the history of Cairns were the construction of the Cairns-to-Herberton railway line commencing in 1886, the establishment of the Cairns Harbour Board in...
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    Barron Gorge, Queensland (category Cairns Region)
    The Cairns-to-Kuranda railway line provides the north-western boundary of the locality and also part of the south-eastern locality. The railway line is...
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  • John Robb (civil engineer) (category Irish emigrants to colonial Australia)
    an engineering marvel. His last project was a section of the Cairns-to-Kuranda railway line in far North Queensland between Kamerunga & Myola, which involved...
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    Tablelands line from Cairns opens through the Barron Gorge to Kuranda 1892 – Central West line reaches Longreach 1897 – Opening of the Cairns-Mulgrave Tramway...
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  • than a funfair railway) Ginger Train, Yandina—610 mm (2 ft) gauge. Gulflander : Croydon–Normanton. Kuranda Scenic Railway : CairnsKuranda. Mary Valley...
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    a proposal to extend its Cairns Railway to the mining leases. The Queensland Government however, although sympathetic, was not prepared to spend money...
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    Gulflander (Normanton–Croydon): 1 round trip per week Kuranda Scenic Railway (CairnsKuranda): daily The Public Transport Authority, a government agency of...
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    for the ascent of the coastal range for the Cairns-to-Kuranda railway line, although the South Coast line opened earlier. By the time the Ernest Junction...
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    railhead when the Cairns-to-Kuranda railway line was extended, and by 1919 Mareeba was the district's most important town. Owing its prosperity to a diverse agricultural...
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    Parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cairns. The Kuranda Scenic Railway has a stop at the Freshwater railway station (16°52′52″S 145°42′35″E / 16...
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  • Byellee to Monto Branch Railway was a branch railway that branched off the Boyne Valley west of Gladstone in Queensland, Australia.The Boyne Valley region...
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    Barron Gorge National Park (category Cairns Region)
    Queensland's World Heritage Area north of Cairns which has won more than 25 awards. The Kuranda Scenic Railway line passes through the park with a station...
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    Heritage Register. The construction of a railway station on Roma Street was part of a plan to extend the Main Line to Brisbane. An iron station building designed...
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    trains on the Ipswich railway line to use the tunnel via the Tennyson railway line. It also allowed the existing rail yards at Clapham to be used as stabling...
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    the population got to 12,000, with 27 hotels ‘Chinese Josh houses’ in the town. The boom was not so long-lived though. When Kuranda rail was established...
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  • Haden Branch Railway was a branch railway line from Kingsthorpe to Goombungee and Haden in the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia. Kingsthorpe is about...
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  • The Cooyar railway line was a branch line in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The small town of Cooyar is about halfway to Kingaroy in...
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    Normanton to Croydon Kuranda Scenic Railway: Cairns to Kuranda Queensland Rail operated many named trains including: Capricornian: Brisbane to Rockhampton...
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