Traveston railway station, Queensland

Citytrain Station
station_name=Traveston
region=Sunshine Coast


servicearea1=Nambour and Gympie North
IB1=Cooran
OB1=Gympie North
street=Howe Road
suburb=Traveston
zone=23
distance=150.34
platforms=1
platform_arch=1 side
access=Howe Road
trainconnect=no
busconnect=no
tvm=no
disability=no
facilities= [http://www.citytrain.com.au/stations/station_details/traveston.asp Link]

Traveston Station is a railway station at Traveston on the Nambour and Gympie North Line of South East Queensland, Australia. It is part of the QR Citytrain network.

The station is in Zone 23 of the TransLink integrated public transport system.

Traveston has a short platform and can only accommodate one car at a time. Passengers wishing to use Traveston should always ensure that they are in the front car of any train.

1925 derailment disaster

On 9 June 1925 there was a derailment near Traveston of the Rockhampton Mail train on a high timber trestle bridge ["The Traveston Smash" Armstrong, J. Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, December, 1969 pp282-286 ] . 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. [cite web | last = Hallam | first = Greg | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1999 | url = http://web.archive.org/web/20030411221812/http://www.sunsteam.org.au/Chapter6-3.htm | title = Chapter 3: The Sunshine Route - Brisbane to Bundaberg | work = Volume 6: The Sunshine Route - Brisbane to Cairns | publisher = SunSteam Inc | accessdate = 2003-04-11 Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 2006-06-09.]

ervices by platform

Citytrain Platforms
p1name=1
p1linename=Nambour & Gympie North
Nambour & Gympie North
p1destname=Gympie North
Brisbane City|p1notes=All stations
Express

=TransLink bus routes servicing Traveston=

*None at present

ee also

*List of South East Queensland railway stations

References

External links

* [http://www.transinfo.com.au TransInfo]
* [http://www.citytrain.com.au Citytrain]
* [http://qroti.com/placeinfo/qld/rail/traveston/ Traveston Station at QROTI]