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RRR - 'Another 3Rs! Railway Refreshment Rooms'
Queensland State Archives @QSArchives
blogs.archives.qld.gov.au/2017/07/03/ano…
Interesting story about Queensland Railways refreshment rooms.
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Refreshment room staff at Tully Railway Station, ca. 1950
hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/14… - #slqdigital @slqld
Busy Toowoomba Railway Refreshment Room, ca. 1919
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Railway station and refreshment rooms, Hughenden, 1930s
Flinders Shire Historical Collection
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Refreshment room on the Bowen - Proserpine Railway 1921
Waitress waiting ready to serve teas enroute on the railway.
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Marvellous photograph !
Another interesting article ' Railway refreshment rooms '
at the Queensland Historical Atlas. Nice slide show of photographs too!
qhatlas.com.au/railway-refres…
Advertisement showing list of Refreshment Rooms, Queensland Railways Public Timetable, 1925.
Cardwell railway station, Queensland, 1930
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Twenty minutes for a fish luncheon ( and maybe some pots hey? ).
Esk Railway Station - Queensland on the Brisbane Valley Railway - Version details - Trove trove.nla.gov.au/version/261033… via @TroveAustralia
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On the classification of Queensland Railways steam locomotives.
Before you can really understand QR locos one needs a little background on the classification.

Useful guide from the @RailMuseum_Qld
theworkshops.qm.qld.gov.au/~/media/Docume… Image
Wikipedia.
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There is a very good list of the classes as well. Image
An excellent source of information is:
Railway locomotive and rollingstock drawings
Brief guide 41 | Queensland State Archives
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Steam hauled revenue passenger service Ipswich to Central
31 July 2015
@QueenslandRail ran a DOWN pass departing Ipswich at 7.19am with stops at Redbank, Darra, Corinda, Indooroopilly, then Central via Exhibition Loop. #QR150
Display Ipswich station concourse
BB18-1/4 1078 at Ipswich shortly before departure.
SX carriages.
Not every day you get the chance to travel by steam on normal weekday hey?
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#Cooktown to #Laura isolated railway opened on 8th October 1888. Originally used steam locomotives up to the end of 1927. Then line was operated exclusively by rail motors. First RM in1917.
Steam engine and carriage at Cooktown - 1900 hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/626 - #slqdigital @slqld
B12 class locomotive no. 40 at Cooktown, ca. 1914 - hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/21… - #slqdigital @slqld
B Class steam locomotive No. 201 in Cooktown, 1899 - hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/87… - #slqdigital @slqld
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