Talk:Fitzroy Developmental Road
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Draft history section notes
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- Southern segment (Taroom Bauhinia Downs Road)
- Most direct route to market for Bauhinia Downs Station.
- Miles railway station opened 1878.
- Wandoan Railway station opened 1914.
- Planned extension to Taroom was never built.
- Middle segment (Bauhinia to Duaringa)
- Access to Duaringa railway station - opened 1876.
- Northern segment (Dingo to Strathfield)
- Access to coalfields at Middlemount and Dysart.
Downsize43 (talk) 09:42, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
The first European settlement in the area of the
Brisbane
much further away to the south-east.
The coming of railways in the 1870s would have had a major influence on the end points of roads from Bauhinia. A railway station opened at Wandoan
, to Miles.
Downsize43 (talk) 01:40, 24 December 2017 (UTC)