Queensland Railway And Tourists Guide (1890) (14785382573)

Identifier: QueenslandRailwayAndTouristsGuide (find matches)
Title: Queensland Railway And Tourists Guide
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Archibald Meston
Subjects: State Library of Queensland Queensland Queensland Railways train travel tourist guide travel
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ofsecond hand imitations of very contemptible phases of life. Shouldthe tourist elect to coach through the Cloncurry district, and thenceacross the watershed of the Colony to Hughenden, he regains therailway system, and may thence travel across the entire continent,through Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia,,a journey that just thirty years ago taxed the endurance, skill andcourage of explorers to the utmost; a journey which is marked by no-monumental stones, though many precious lives have ebbed away insolitude on the thirsty sands. And now, a chain of stations dots thecourse, with townships growing here and there. Coaches carryfrequent mails. Steam rapidly devours the yawning gaps, the swag-man, undisturbed by fear of hostile blacks, leisurely wends his way.The unknown regions of the globe are curtailed, and a wide territorylong lying under contumelious stigma as a desert, is proved to beone of the most productive zones of territory open for developmentby man.
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Sandgate Railway. J I iHIS suburban railway runs from Brisbane to Sandgate, amarine township on the sliores of the Bay, 13 miles by railand 20 by water. The line was opened to Sandgate on May 11, 1882. Sandgate is now a considerable township, with a fixed populationof about 2000 people, apart from the large number of visitors whopatronise it as a watering place. For this purpose it has theadvantage of being the nearest to the metropolis. The main partof the town stands on a ridge bordering the Bay, bounded on thesouth side by Cabbage Tree Creek, and on the north, tapering awaytowards the North and South Pine Rivers, the Gooloogan and Tambir of the blacks. These rivers enter Bramble Bay whichsweeps round from the jetty point of Sandgate to Woody Point on theopposite side. Woody is known as Humpy Bong, originally Umpee-boang,a name given by the blacks tothehousesleft there when the con-victs were removed to the present site of Brisbane. For Woody Point,opposite Sandgate, was the site ch