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Queensland C19 Class Locomotive
The Queensland Railways C19 class locomotive was a class of 4-8-0 steam locomotives operated by the Queensland Railways. History The C19 class was designed as a superheated version of the C18 class. Per Queensland Railway's classification system they were designated the C19 class, C representing they had four driving axles, and the 19 the cylinder diameter in inches. The North Ipswich Railway Workshops built 20 between 1922 and 1928. A further six were built by Walkers Limited in 1935. They worked the heavily graded Main, Southern, North Coast and Western lines. Nº 702 entered traffic in December 1923 and was named ''Centenary'' as it was the hundredth engine constructed by North Ipswich Railway Workshops. In April 1927, 699 operated a Royal train carrying the Duchess of York and in December 1934, 700 carried the Duke of Gloucester. A number of modifications were made over the years. The early engines had a large regulator dome and another smaller one for the safety val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Liverpool Range
The Little Liverpool Range is a mountain range of the Scenic Rim and Lockyer Creek valley, part of the Great Dividing Range, which is located in the South East region of Queensland, Australia. Location and features The range extends from the Main Range to the west of Aratula northwards to Plainland, where the Warrego Highway crosses the range. The range forms the drainage divide between the Bremer River valley from the Laidley Creek valley, a tributary of Lockyer Creek. Allan Cunningham and his party were the first Europeans to explore the area. They crossed the range in 1829. Mountain peaks in the Little Liverpool Range include Mount Castle, Kangaroo Mountain, Grass Tree Knoll, Mt Beau Brummell, Mount Stradbroke, Mount Grandchester, and Two Tree Hill. One of the regions weather stations Marburg radar station is positioned on the range at a height of . Railways The Little Liverpool Range was an obstacle that hindered development of a railway from Brisbane to Toowoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was also the last Empress of India from 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved on 15 August 1947. After her husband died, she was officially known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother to avoid confusion with her daughter Queen Elizabeth II. Born into a family of British nobility, Elizabeth came to prominence in 1923 when she married Prince Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. The couple and their daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, embodied traditional ideas of family and public service. The Duchess undertook a variety of public engagements and became known for her consistently cheerful countenance. In 1936, Elizabeth's husband unexpectedly ascended the throne as George VI when his older brother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walkers Limited Locomotives
Walkers may refer to: Art, entertainment, and media * Walkers, one name for zombies in The Walking Dead (franchise) * ''Walkers'' (novel), a 1980 horror novel by Gary Brandner * The Walkers (Danish band), a Danish glam rock band * The Walkers (Dutch band), a Dutch band * The Walkers, British band 1983 with Camelle Hinds and Canute Washington Brands and enterprises * Walker Scott, a.k.a. Walker's, a former San Diego–based department store * Walkers (law firm), a Cayman Islands–based offshore law firm * Walkers (snack foods), British snack food manufacturer * Walkers Limited, railway vehicle manufacturer in Maryborough, Queensland * Walker's department store, or Walkers, a former California-based department store * Walker's Nonsuch, an English toffee manufacturer * Walker's Shortbread Walker's Shortbread Ltd. (formerly Walkers) is a Scottish manufacturer of shortbread, biscuits, cookies, and crackers. The shortbread is baked in the Moray village of Aberlour, following a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steam Locomotives Of Queensland
Steam is water vapor, often mixed with air or an aerosol of liquid water droplets. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporization. Saturated or superheated steam is invisible; however, wet steam, a visible mist or aerosol of water droplets, is often referred to as "steam". When liquid water becomes steam, it increases in volume by 1,700 times at standard temperature and pressure; this change in volume can be converted into mechanical work by steam engines such as reciprocating piston type engines and steam turbines, which are a sub-group of steam engines. Piston type steam engines played a central role in the Industrial Revolution and modern steam turbines are used to generate more than 80% of the world's electricity. If liquid water comes in contact with a very hot surface or depressurizes quickly below its vapour pressure, it can create a steam explosion. Types of steam and conversions Steam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Locomotives Introduced In 1922
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and freight transport globally, thanks to its energy efficiency and potentially high speed.Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is usually provided by diesel or electric locomotives. While railway transport is capital-intensive and less flexible than road transport, it can carry heavy loads of passengers and cargo with greater energy efficiency and safety. Precursors of railways driven by human or animal power have existed since antiquity, but modern rail transport began with the invention of the steam locomotive in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workshops Rail Museum
The Queensland Museum Rail Workshops (formerly the Workshops Rail Museum) is a railway museum in Ipswich, Queensland, located within the former North Ipswich Railway Workshops and tells the story of more than 150 years of Rail transport in Queensland, railways in Queensland. Exhibits are spread out across a number of the complex's original buildings housing a collection of historic Steam locomotives, steam and Diesel locomotive, diesel locomotives and other rolling stock that operated on Queensland Railways, as well as general interest exhibits and ones tailored specifically for children. The museum, which opened in 2002, is part of the Queensland Museum network, and highlights include the oldest working locomotive in Australia and the largest Rail transport modelling, model railway in Queensland. History Ipswich Railway Workshops Queensland's first railway line, opened on 31 July 1865, ran between Ipswich and Grandchester, Queensland, Grandchester, approximately to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toowoomba Railway Station
Toowoomba railway station is a heritage-listed railway station on the Western railway line, Queensland, Western line at Russell Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It serves the city of Toowoomba, which is the junction for the Western railway line, Queensland, Western, Main Line railway, Queensland, Main and Southern railway line, Queensland, Southern lines. The station has one platform with a passing loop, opening in 1867. It was designed by FDG Stanley and built in 1873 by R. Godsall. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. Services Toowoomba is served by Queensland Rail#Long Distance Trains, Queensland Rail Travel's twice weekly ''The Westlander, Westlander'' service travelling between Roma Street railway station, Brisbane and Charleville railway station, Charleville. Following the cessation of the ''Dirranbandi Mail'' in February 1993, the cessation of the Roma railway station, Roma to Roma Street ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland BB18¼ Class Locomotive
The Queensland Railways BB18¼ class locomotive was a class of 4-6-2 steam locomotives operated by the Queensland Railways. History The first 35 BB18¼ class locomotives were built by the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, England in 1950/51. Per Queensland Railway's classification system they were designated the BB18¼ class, BB representing they had three driving axles, and the 18¼ the cylinder diameter in inches. A further 20 built by Walkers Limited, Maryborough between 1955 and 1958. No. 1089 was the last steam engine placed into service on a mainline Australian railway. Their route availability was always the same as for the BB18¼ and C19. The extremities of that availability when they were introduced were (from Brisbane) Roma, Wallan-garra, Merinda (near Bowen), plus branches Bundamba to 3 miles 8 chains (on loop to Redbank), Gowrie to Wyreema loop, Warwick to Thane (South-Western Line), Ipswich to Workshops Gate, South Brisbane to Lota, Kuraby and Corinda, Shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland B18¼ Class Locomotive
The Queensland Railways B18¼ class locomotive was a class of 4-6-2 steam locomotives operated by the Queensland Railways. History The first batch of 17 B18¼ class locomotive were built by the North Ipswich Railway Workshops in 1926. Per Queensland Railway's classification system they were designated the B18 class, B representing they had three driving axles, and the 18 the cylinder diameter in inches. Further orders saw the class total 83 by 1947 with some built by Walkers Limited Walkers Limited was an Australian engineering and shipbuilding company based in Maryborough, Queensland. It built large vessels and railway locomotives. The Walkers factory still produces locomotives and rolling stock as part of Downer Rail. .... The latter examples were fitted with modified boilers and improved cabs. The early examples were painted prussian blue with the boilers having a natural finish. The latter examples were painted black with red lining. In 1949 all were repainted green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland C17 Class Locomotive
The Queensland Railways C17 class locomotive are a class of 4-8-0 steam locomotives operated by the Queensland Railways. History The C17 class was introduced as an improved version of the Queensland C16 class locomotive, C16 class. Per Queensland Railway's List of Queensland steam locomotives#Classification, classification system they were designated the C17 class, C representing they had four Driving wheel, driving axles, and 17 representing the Cylinder (engine), cylinder diameter in inches. The design was so successful that 227 locomotives were built from 1920 when the first engine Nº 15 entering service through until 1953 when Nº 1000 was delivered. The Commonwealth Railways NM class were of the same design. They were used to haul Mail trains on lines could not accommodate heavier Queensland B18¼ class locomotive, B18¼ class, also suburban passenger, mixed, goods and branch line trains. Until 1948 they were the heaviest engines that could work north of Mackay railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryborough Railway Station, Queensland
Maryborough railway station is a heritage-listed railway station at Lennox Street, Maryborough, Queensland, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It is on the North Coast railway line, Queensland, North Coast line serving the city of Maryborough. It was designed by Queensland Rail, Chief Engineer of the Queensland Railways Department and built from 1878 to 1890 by John Roddam & John Walker. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. The station forecourt is served by Greyhound Australia coach services to Brisbane Transit Centre, Brisbane, Hervey Bay, Agnes Water and Cairns, and Premier Transport Group#Premier Motor Services, Premier Motor Services services to Brisbane and Cairns Queensland Rail operates services between Hervey Bay and Maryborough West railway station via Maryborough station. Maryborough railway station opened in 1878, when an eight kilometre branch into Maryborough, Queensland, Maryborough was built as part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
