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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] |
Roma Railway Station
Roma railway station is located on the Western line in Queensland, Australia. It serves the town of Roma. The station has one platform, opening in 1880. Services Roma is served by Queensland Rail Travel's twice weekly '' Westlander'' service travelling between Brisbane and Charleville. The Westbound service (3S86) arrives at Roma at 6:05am and departs at 6:15am Wednesdays and Fridays. The eastbound service (3987) arrives at 11:25pm and departs at 11:35pm Wednesdays and Fridays. Until the end of 1993, Roma was served by Rail motor services 5R16/5665 that travelled to and from Roma Street railway station via Wallumbilla, Yuleba, Miles, Chinchilla, Dalby, Oakey and Toowoomba in conjunction with a railbus service operated by McCafferty's McCafferty's Coaches was an Australian family run interstate coach operator from 1940 to 2004. In October 2004 the McCafferty family sold its shares and its operations were rebranded as part of Greyhound Australia History McCafferty's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland McKeen Car
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south, respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and the Pacific Ocean; to the state's north is the Torres Strait, separating the Australian mainland from Papua New Guinea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the north-west. With an area of , Queensland is the world's sixth-largest subnational entity; it is larger than all but 16 countries. Due to its size, Queensland's geographical features and climates are diverse, and include tropical rainforests, rivers, coral reefs, mountain ranges and white sandy beaches in its tropical and sub-tropical coastal regions, as well as deserts and savanna in the semi-arid and desert climatic regions of its interior. Queensland has a population of over 5.5 million, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grantham, Queensland
Grantham is a rural town and locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. The town is located west of the state capital, Brisbane. In the , the locality of Grantham had a population of 796 people. Geography The Warrego Highway passes through from east to west. The north-west corner is occupied by part of the Lockyer State Forest. History The area was first settled in 1841, by George Mocatta. He named his pastoral run ''Grantham,'' which became the name of the town. In 1866, a railway siding from the main Toowoomba line was opened which assisted in the development of a small settlement. It wasn't until the mid-1870s that the Grantham railway station was built. In August 1895, tenders were called for the erection of a provisional school at Grantham Scrub. In January 1896 teacher, Catherine M. Ludeman was appointed to the Grantham Scrub Provisional School, suggesting it opened around that time. On 1 January 1909, it became Grantham Scrub State School. It cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrought Iron
Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.05%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4.5%), or 0.25 for low carbon "mild" steel. Wrought iron is manufactured by heating and melting high carbon cast iron in an open charcoal or coke hearth or furnace in a process known as puddling. The high temperatures cause the excess carbon to oxidise, the iron being stirred or puddled during the process in order to achieve this. As the carbon content reduces, the melting point of the iron increases, ultimately to a level which is higher than can be achieved by the hearth, hence the wrought iron is never fully molten and many impurities remain. The primary advantage of wrought iron over cast iron is its malleability - where cast iron is too brittle to bend or shape without breaking, wrought iron is highly malleable, and much easier to bend. Wrought iron is a semi-fused mass of iron with fibrous slag inclusions (up to 2% by weight), which give it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia, with a population of approximately 2.8 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of South East Queensland, an urban agglomeration with a population of over 4 million. The Brisbane central business district, central business district is situated within a peninsula of the Brisbane River about from its mouth at Moreton Bay. Brisbane's metropolitan area sprawls over the hilly floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Taylor Range, Taylor and D'Aguilar Range, D'Aguilar mountain ranges, encompassing several local government in Australia, local government areas, most centrally the City of Brisbane. The demonym of Brisbane is ''Brisbanite''. The Moreton Bay penal settlement was founded in 1824 at Redcliffe, Queensland, Redcliff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyogle
Kyogle () is a town in the Northern Rivers region of northern New South Wales, Australia. It falls within the Local government in Australia, local government area of Kyogle Council. At the 2016 Australian census, 2016 census, Kyogle had a population of 2,751 people. Kyogle is known as a "gateway" to many national parks including Border Ranges National Park and Toonumbar National Park. History It was founded in the 1830s as a lumber camp, and is located north of Sydney, north of Casino, New South Wales, Casino on the Summerland Way close to the Queensland border. It also lies on the banks of the Richmond River. It is the seat of its own shire. The meaning of the name Kyogle is adapted from the Bundjalung word ‘kaiou-gal’ meaning ‘place of the bush turkey” which is a fast long-legged running bird. The bush turkey, or Brushturkey, brush turkey, is a common theme in Kyogle and this is reflected in the construction of the "Big Bush Turkey" and that the Kyogle Rugby Leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Government Architect
The Queensland Government Architect is a position within the public service of Queensland, Australia with responsibility for the design of government buildings in Queensland. It was formerly known as the Queensland Colonial Architect. The position is located within the Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works. List of Colonial Architects in Queensland * Charles Tiffin, appointed in December 1859. * Francis Drummond Greville Stanley, appointed in July 1873 * John James Clark, appointed in July 1883 * George St Paul Connolly, appointed acting Colonial Architect in December 1885 following the resignation of John James Clark, appointed Colonial Architect in July 1886 but backdated to January 1886, a position he held until the government abolished the position in July 1891 * Alfred Barton Brady, the Engineer for Bridges and Inspector of Divisional Board Works assumed the responsibilities (but not the title) of Colonial Architect in July 1891, but in September 1891 it was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laidley Railway Station
Laidley may refer to: *Laidley (name) Places Australia *Laidley, Queensland Laidley is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Laidley had a population of 3,809 people. Geography Laidley is situated within the Lockyer ..., a town in South East Queensland, Australia ** Laidley Valley (Mulgowie) railway line ** Laidley Golf Club * Town of Laidley, a former local government area comprising Laidley, Queensland * Shire of Laidley, a former local government area in Queensland * Laidley Creek West, Queensland, a locality in the Lockyer Valley Region * Laidley Heights, Queensland, a locality in the Lockyer Valley Region * Laidley North, Queensland, a locality in the Lockyer Valley Region * Laidley South, Queensland, a locality in the Lockyer Valley Region United States * Laidley Tower in Charleston, West Virginia, U.S. {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agra Bank
Agra Bank was an Indian bank that was founded in 1833 in Agra (now in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh), with a capital of £1,000,000 and was finally liquidated in 1900.Stuart Muirhead, Edwin Green. ''Crisis Banking in the East'', Ashgate Publishing, 1996 History The bank was founded in 1833, but by 1840 its business was still confined to advances to the military. Attempts to circulate banknotes were blocked by the government but in any case notes had little appeal to the bulk of local residents. A branch was established in Somerset Place, Calcutta and by the mid-1850s Calcutta had become its head office with branches in Madras and Bombay and a London agency. Branches in Lahore and Canton were added and at the end of the 1850s the head office was moved to London. Move to London and the United Service Bank The Agra and United Service Bank was incorporated in England in 1857 and issued banknotes but it was unable to gain entry to the London Bankers' Clearing House.Dennis O. Fly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prefabrication
Prefabrication is the practice of assembling components of a structure in a factory or other manufacturing site, and transporting complete assemblies or sub-assemblies to the construction site where the structure is to be located. Some researchers refer it to “various materials joined together to form a component of the final installation procedure“. The most commonly cited definition is by Goodier and Gibb in 2007, which described the process of manufacturing and preassembly of a certain number of building components, modules, and elements before their shipment and installation on construction sites. The term ''prefabrication'' also applies to the manufacturing of things other than structures at a fixed site. It is frequently used when fabrication of a section of a machine or any movable structure is shifted from the main manufacturing site to another location, and the section is supplied assembled and ready to fit. It is not generally used to refer to electrical or elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Fox (civil And Railway Engineer)
Sir Charles Fox (11 March 1810 – 11 June 1874) was an English civil engineer and contractor. His work focused on railways, railway stations and bridges. Biography Born in Derby in 1810, Charles Fox was the youngest of five sons of Dr. Francis Fox. Initially trained to follow his father's career, he abandoned medical training at age 19 and became articled to John Ericsson, working with him and John Braithwaite on the ''Novelty'' locomotive, which he drove in the Rainhill trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. He acquired a taste for locomotive driving and was employed on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, being present at its opening. In 1830, Fox married Mary, second daughter of Joseph Brookhouse, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. Two of his sons, Francis Fox and Charles Douglas Fox, also became engineers. Railways One of his earliest inventions, patented in 1838, was railway points, which superseded the sliding rail used up to that time. In 1837 R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
