Mini Ep 7 - Who was Queensland Railways first female architect?
We pass through train stations every day, but have you ever wondered who designed them? In this episode, our historian Greg Hallam and Annet...
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The Queensland Rail History Podcast
Our podcast is very much like the beginnings of the Queensland Railways in 1865 - a journey into the rich tapestry that is the story of Queensland. Since the colony and later the state of Qu...
Episodes
20 of 40 episodesEp 29 - Lovely Liveries
In this episode, Annette and historian Greg Hallam dive into the surprisingly colourful world of Queensland Rail’s locomotive liveries. From...
Ep 28 - When did the steam era end in Queensland?
Episode 28 - ‘On ya Bike’ - Along the Brisbane Valley Line - Some stories about the railway to Yarraman (and a bit beyond that…) In this epi...
Mini Ep 6 - Rails to Resorts: Queensland’s Coastal Getaways
In this mini Rail Tale episode, our host Annette and Queensland Rail Historian Greg Hallam take listeners on a nostalgic journey through Que...
Mini Ep 5 - What happened to the Kuranda Tourist and Grandstand trains?
Rail Tale Episode 5 - The Mecca of our Desires. The Tourist train, the forerunner of today’s Kuranda Scenic Railway (KSR) experience has a l...
Ep 27 - Picture Perfect! The Railway Photographers Who Sold a State
In today’s world of selfies, social media and smartphones – everyone has a camera in their pocket. But, 160 years ago, a picture told a thou...
Ep 26 - How Did a 12-Year-Old Help Launch Queensland's First Railway?
160th Special - People, personalities and the early beginnings of our railways. On 31 July 1865, the first section of railway line opened in...
Mini Ep 4 - How Did Steam Locomotives Get Their Names from Telegraph Codes?
Rail Tale Episode 4 - Telegraphically Yours When the first railway line opened in Queensland in 1865, alongside it also went the electric te...
Episode 25 - What Changed When Signalling Went Central?
Episode 25 - Signal Central - The Rail Management Centre Why do trains run late sometimes? How do you even plan a train time table? What doe...
What does it take to plan a train? our interview with Matt Green
Why do trains run late sometimes? How do you even plan a train time table? What does it take to become a train controller? What happens to t...
Ep 24 – The story behind our first steam loco made in QLD
Episode 24 – Made in Maryborough In 1873, Walker's Limited built Queensland's first steam engine and went on to become a major man...
Ep 23 – Two Trains, One City Square: How Did It Happen?
Episode 23 - Trains in King George Square In February 1914, Queensland Railways commemorated the 50th anniversary of the beginning of constr...
Mini Ep 3 - Could you get a filling at a train station?
Rail Tale Episode 3 - ‘Filling’ in time: The School Rail Dental Clinics Did you know one of the first travelling dental clinics in Queenslan...
Ep 22 – Why Is Peter Obsessed with Concrete Culverts?
Episode 22 - Not quite set in concrete? Today on our podcast, we will go on a journey, and look at when things were not set in stone, but, r...
Mini Ep 2 - How Did a Train Carriage Escape with the Premier Onboard?
Rail Tale Episode 2 - A Runaway Premier (or a runaway Premiers’ carriage?) In 1931, the then Queensland Premier Arthur Moore travelled to Mo...
Ep 21 - Why did it take 100 years to build this vital bridge?
Episode 21 - The Merivale Bridge On Saturday, 18 November 1978, the Merivale Railway Bridge, connecting Roma Street and South Brisbane Railw...
Ep 20 - The one bridge that united an entire state.
Episode 20 - The North Coast Railway In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries most of the travel between the isolated railway sy...
Mini Ep 1 - Who was Queensland's first Station Master??
Our first rail tale about Queensland’s first Station Master… Sir Charles Fox and Son, Agents for the Queensland Government based in London,...
Ep 19 – Could Cobb & Co Coaches Keep Up with the Iron Horse?
Episode 19 - Cobb & Co and the Queensland Railways - A long lasting shared journey From the mid-1860s until 1924, travel in Australia involv...
Ep 18 – What Makes the Tilt Train So Iconic to Queenslanders?
Episode 18 - The Tilt Train In today's episode we look at how over 25 years ago, Queensland Rail began its ‘tilt to the future’ with an...