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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...
We pass through train stations every day, but have you ever wondered who designed them? In this episode, our historian Greg Hallam and Annet...
In this episode, Annette and historian Greg Hallam dive into the surprisingly colourful world of Queensland Rail’s locomotive liveries. From...
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...
In this mini Rail Tale episode, our host Annette and Queensland Rail Historian Greg Hallam take listeners on a nostalgic journey through Que...
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...
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...
160th Special - People, personalities and the early beginnings of our railways. On 31 July 1865, the first section of railway line opened in...
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 - Signal Central - The Rail Management Centre Why do trains run late sometimes? How do you even plan a train time table? What doe...
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...
Episode 24 – Made in Maryborough In 1873, Walker's Limited built Queensland's first steam engine and went on to become a major man...
Episode 23 - Trains in King George Square In February 1914, Queensland Railways commemorated the 50th anniversary of the beginning of constr...
Rail Tale Episode 3 - ‘Filling’ in time: The School Rail Dental Clinics Did you know one of the first travelling dental clinics in Queenslan...
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...
Rail Tale Episode 2 - A Runaway Premier (or a runaway Premiers’ carriage?) In 1931, the then Queensland Premier Arthur Moore travelled to Mo...
Episode 21 - The Merivale Bridge On Saturday, 18 November 1978, the Merivale Railway Bridge, connecting Roma Street and South Brisbane Railw...
Episode 20 - The North Coast Railway In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries most of the travel between the isolated railway sy...
Our first rail tale about Queensland’s first Station Master… Sir Charles Fox and Son, Agents for the Queensland Government based in London,...
Episode 19 - Cobb & Co and the Queensland Railways - A long lasting shared journey From the mid-1860s until 1924, travel in Australia involv...
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...
Episode 17 - Electrifying Times There were two events in the 1960s and early 1970s that led to a massive change in South East Queensland’s p...
Episode 16 - Rail Motors Christmas time and the school holidays would bring back memories of long train journeys to far flung parts of Queen...
Today, we’ll be looking at the era in the late 1880s and into the early 20th century, when many towns close to the South Coast (now known as...
Episode 14 - The Landers 1953 was one of the truly revolutionary years for the Queensland Railways, with the introduction of air conditioned...
1952 was one of the truly revolutionary years for the Queensland Railways. It was in that year that the first DEL (Diesel Electric Locomotiv...
A10 No. 6 is one of the oldest steam locomotives in the world, still capable of operating on a main line. The tiny locomotive has a long, an...
Once upon a time, three little letters, ‘’R R R’’ would bring a smile to any weary traveller’s face. Those three letters stood for the Railw...
Today we are discussing a place many of our listeners will be familiar with – Roma Street station. We will cover its grand beginning as a ma...
An encounter with the South Brisbane railway system during the 1960’s was truly a step back in time to the early 20th century. On our latest...
Annette and Queensland Rail Historian, Greg Hallam, talk about a time of trains bringing families together to celebrate the holidays, delive...
Episode 8 - It's been an honour... Queensland Railways Honour Boards In this episode, we talk about how over a century ago, Queensland...
In this episode, we talk about how 80 years ago, Queensland and the Queensland Railways found themselves thrust into a crucial role during t...
In 1914, Queensland Railways launched a garden competition to encourage railway staff to beautify the stations with colourful flowers and pl...
Episode 5 - A Very Up and Down Place - Building the Main Range railway Today we're talking about the crossing of the Main Range from th...
Today we are looking into design and standardisation of the railway. Be it early prefabricated buildings brought over on ships, the choice f...
The Christmas period was always one of the busiest times for travellers in Queensland, who went to visit family, or go on holidays, on the Q...
What are some of the great Queensland Railway lines that never were? What we might today think of as a big, connected network across the sta...
In the 2nd half of our two-part special, we’re going to cover the completion of the Kuranda Scenic Railway (KSR). If you haven’t listened to...
In this two-part episode, we’re going to dive into one of the most iconic pieces of railway in Australia, arguably in the world: The Kuranda...
In the last weeks of July 1865, the population of Southern Queensland watched with increasing interest and confidence, the anticipated compl...