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Doomben line 
Website queenslandrail.com.au Technical Line length 0 km (0 mi) Track length 9.9 km (6.2 mi) Track gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) Cape gauge Operating speed 0 km/h (0 mph) The Doomben railway line is a short suburban railway line extending 6.2 km (3.9 mi) east-northeast from Brisbane (9.9 km from Central station by rail), the state capital of Queensland, Australia. It is part of the QR Citytrain network.
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History
For more details on this topic, see Rail transport in Queensland.The line opened on 3 September 1882 to Pinkenba railway station. During World War I and World War II, with deep berthing available to ships at Pinkenba on the mouth of the Brisbane River, troops camped in the Pinkenba and Meeandah localities. Passenger ships used the Pinkenba wharf, and special trains ran from Brisbane to Pinkenba.[1]
The line was electrified in 1988, but only until a number of metres past Eagle Farm, the next station after current suburban terminus Doomben; only diesel-hauled services could travel the full length of the line, and those were infrequent. All passenger services on the line were suspended in September 1993 by a Goss Labor Party government as part of a state-wide rationalisation of the rail network with the closing or suspending of under-utilised or unprofitable rail lines. Only a few special services were run on the line on days of major race events at adjoining race tracks.
Electric passenger services resumed on 27 January 1998 under a Borbidge National Party government, but only as far as Doomben,[2] with bus connections to the other abandoned stations.
The Pinkenba section of the railway line (after Doomben station) has closed completely, however the track has been upgraded so the possibility of future services on the line is not impossible.[3]
Heritage services
QR occasionally run special steam train passenger services on the entire Pinkenba railway line as part of their semi-regular Steam Train Sunday excursion service.[4] This is the only way to travel on the full length of the line.
Line guide and services
All services stop at all stations to Roma Street railway station. The typical travel time between Doomben and Brisbane City is approximately 18 minutes (to Central).
Doomben line services typically continue as Cleveland line services. No rail services operate on Sundays or public holidays.
Passengers for/from the Airport, Caboolture and Shorncliffe lines change at Eagle Junction, Ferny Grove and Nambour and Gympie North lines at Bowen Hills, and all other lines at Central.
Doomben railway line
showing distance from Central, ticket zone, and connecting or nearby bus services
Beenleigh, Cleveland, Gold Coast, Ipswich, Rosewood, Tennyson lines 
Exhibition line 
0.8 km Roma Street (1) See Roma Street railway station 
0.0 km CENTRAL (1) See Adelaide Street Bus Mall 
1.3 km Fortitude Valley (1) See Fortitude Valley railway station 
Exhibition line 2.7 km Bowen Hills (1) 301, 310, 315, 320, 393 
Inner City Bypass Ferny Grove line 
Breakfast Creek 4.5 km Albion (2) 306, 310, 315, 322 5.6 km Wooloowin (2) 6.5 km Eagle Junction (2) 303, 304, 320, 321 Airport, Caboolture, Nambour and Gympie North, Shorncliffe lines 7.4 km Clayfield (2) 303, 304, 610, 615 8.0 km Hendra (2) 300, 303, 304 
8.9 km Ascot (2) 300, 303, 304 9.9 km DOOMBEN (2) 301, 303, 304 
To Hamilton Cold Stores (Whinstanes freight branch) Gateway Motorway 
Eagle Farm 1 (Airport) 302, 303, 304 Eagle Farm 2 Gateway Motorway Deviation (under construction) Bunour 302, 303, 304 Meeandah 302, 303, 304 
Eagle Farm Road 
PINKENBA 302, 303 
Pinkenba balloon loop 
Incitec Wharf 
Shell Terminal 
Boral Gas siding 
BP Oil Refinery References
- ^ Hallam, Greg (2005). Brisbane's Biography (Steamtrain Sunday). QR Limited.
- ^ "Doomben Rail Service Resume January 27" (Press release). Queensland Government. 1998-01-21. http://statements.cabinet.qld.gov.au/MMS/StatementDisplaySingle.aspx?id=5094. Retrieved 2007-11-22.
- ^ http://www.railpage.com.au/f-t11355554.htm
- ^ "Citytrain - Events - Steam Train Sunday". Events. QR Limited. http://www.citytrain.com.au/events/Steam_Train_Sunday/steam_train_sunday.asp. Retrieved 2007-11-22.
External links
Queensland Rail's city rail lines Northern Southern Inner city Categories:- Brisbane railway lines
- Public transport in Brisbane
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