Traveston railway station
Traveston | |||||||||||
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.jpg) Station building in January 2026 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Howe Road, Traveston | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 26°19′11″S 152°46′59″E / 26.3198°S 152.7830°E | ||||||||||
| Owner | Queensland Rail | ||||||||||
| Operator | Queensland Rail | ||||||||||
| Line | T1 Nambour/Gympie North | ||||||||||
| Distance | 150.34 kilometres from Central | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Structure type | Ground | ||||||||||
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| Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||
| Station code | 600499 | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | Zone 8 | ||||||||||
| Website | Queensland Rail | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1889[1] | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2011 | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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Traveston is a railway station operated by Queensland Rail on the Nambour/Gympie North line. It opened in 1889 and serves the Gympie town of Traveston. It is a ground level station, featuring one side platform, and is the shortest railway station in Queensland.
History
Traveston station consists of one short platform that can only accommodate one carriage, requiring passengers to alight via the front door of services. A timber waiting room shelter is located behind the platform at ground level. Opposite the platform lies a crossing loop.
In 2010, the station was threatened with closure after the waiting room was deemed unsafe.[2] However, in 2011 it was decided to restore the shelter, despite it being the least used station in on the Queensland Rail Citytrain network with an average of four passengers per week.[3][4]
Services
Traveston is serviced by two daily Citytrain network services in each direction.[5]
1925 derailment disaster
On 9 June 1925, the Rockhampton Mail derailed near Traveston on a high timber trestle bridge.[6] Ten people were killed and 48 injured when a passenger car and the luggage van plunged off the bridge, and another passenger car was pulled on its side. It resulted in baggage cars being specially built for passenger trains and ended the use of certain types of goods vehicles on passenger trains.[7]
Services by platform
| Traveston platform arrangement | |||
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| Platform | Line | Destinations | Notes |
| 1 | T1 Nambour/Gympie North | Gympie North | [8] |
| Roma Street (to Ipswich/Rosewood line) | |||
References
- ↑ "Traveston Railway Station" (PDF). RAIL Back On Track. October 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 May 2026. Retrieved 31 May 2026.
- ↑ Traveston rail stop on death row Gympie Times 25 March 2010
- ↑ Historic station saved Gympie Times 24 November 2011
- ↑ "Traveston Station averages four passenger movements a week but cost $128,000 last year to maintain". The Courier-Mail.
- ↑ "Sunshine Coast Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
- ↑ The Traveston Smash Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin December 1969 pp282-286
- ↑ Chapter 3: The Sunshine Route - Brisbane to Bundaberg SunSteam
- ↑ Traveston Platform 1 TransLink
External links
Media related to Traveston railway station at Wikimedia Commons- Media related to Traveston railway accident at Wikimedia Commons
- Traveston station Queensland Rail
- Traveston station Queensland's Railways on the Internet