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Image: StateLibQld 1 66227 Queensland's first railway train passes over Iron Pot Gully, Ipswich district, 1865

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Description: Queensland's first railway train passes over Iron Pot Gully, Ipswich district, 1865 Caption under photograph reads: Opening of the Queensland Railway. The first train passing over Iron Pot Gully. The first stage of the Ipswich to Grandchester railway line opened on 31 July 1865. This line was the first narrow gauge (3 feet 3 inches) railway in Australia, and was Queensland's first railway line. By 24 May 1866 the line had been extended to Gatton. It reached Toowoomba on 12 April 1867.
Title: StateLibQld 1 66227 Queensland's first railway train passes over Iron Pot Gully, Ipswich district, 1865
Credit: Copied and digitised from an image appearing in Brisbane old and new 1841-1914, a pictorial contrast. Brisbane : J. Feldheim, 1914
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