FROM ABOVE; NORTHERN SECTION OF ABERMAIN BRANCH
(A) Holdsworth Rd Open Level Crossing site
(B) Wright's Colliery Siding
(C) Warrego Highway (Cutting)
(D) Remains of timber bridge
(E) Housing development on former allignment
(F) Mt Crosby Rd Open Level Crossing site
(G) Rylance-Abermain opencut area; all historic traces removed.
1913 DESIGN DRAWING OF PERMANENT WAY ABERMAIN BRANCH
Source: Qld Railways Archives
(A) HOLDSWORTH RD OPEN LEVEL CROSSING SITE LOOKING SOUTH-WEST 2021
Later road construction has obliterated the remains.
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HOLDSWORTH ROAD CROSSING SITE LOOKING SOUTH-EAST 2021
On the far side branch cannot be traced in heavily overgrown area
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31E2DF Wright's Colliery Siding
1915 WORKING PLAN WRIGHT'S COLLIERY SIDING
Source: Qld Railways Archives
LOOKING EAST ACROSS ABERMAIN BRANCH EMBANKMENT 2016
Although that embankment is quite pronounced there is no sign of Wright's Siding which would have been on the near side. Also nothing is left of the associated structures which would have been on the right.
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BRANCH EMBANKMENT AS IT HEADS SOUTH OUT OF OVERGROWN AREA 2016
Photo taken facing north.
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FACING SOUTH THIS TIME LOOKING ALONG EMBANKMENT 2016
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SAME SECTION OF EMBANKMENT LOOKING WEST 2016
Embankment quite high and pronounced at this point.
Evidence of coal can just be seen.
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EMBANKMENT FURTHER SOUTH VIEWED FROM THE NORTH-EAST 2018
Note coal remnants in foreground.
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END OF EXISTING EMBANKMENT LOOKING SOUTH 2016
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FURTHER SOUTH LOOKING SOUTH 2016
Approximate site of allignment but topography very disturbed.
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VERY LARGE CONCRETE SLAB ON ITS SIDE IN THE AREA 2016
Source unknown
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LOOKING NORTH ACROSS WARREGO HWY AT APPROXIMATE PLACE THAT FORMER ALLIGNMENT PASSED 2019
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LOOKING NORTH ALONG FORMER ALLIGNMENT TOWARDS WARREGO HWY 2016
Depression looks like a former shallow cutting. At right are broken concrete slabs.
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CLOSEUP OF CONCRETE SLABS 2019
Sign of a very major structure; probably mine-related.
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FURTHER SOUTH ALONG FORMER ALLIGNMENT LOOKING TOWARDS HIGHWAY 2019
No evidence remains at this point.+
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LOOKING BACK SOUTH ALONG FORMER ALLIGNMENT 2019
Bridge embankment commences on other side of saplings.
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MORE RELICS OF FORMER MINING 2016
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LOOKING SOUTH ALONG RAIL EMBANKMENT TOWARDS SITE OF BRIDGE 2016
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EMBANKMENT VIEWED FROM NORTH 2016
Bridge was located to the left.
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REMAINING BRIDGE PILE WITH METAL SUPPORT STILL ATTACHED 2016
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NORTHERN ABUTTMENT OF FORMER BRIDGE 2018
In process of being inspected.
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VIEWED FROM FURTHER BACK LOOKING ACROSS THE GULLY 2016
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LOOKING SOUTH ACROSS GULLY 2018
Only a couple of stumps remain of the bridge.
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FURTHER SOUTH LOOKING ACROSS WRIGHT STREET 2016
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LOOKING NORTH-EAST DIAGONALLY ACROSS GEORGE ST 2016
Site of line ran approximately through the front yards of the houses on the far side of the street.
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LOOKING NORTH ALONG FORMER ALLIGNMENT WHERE IT CROSSED MT CROSBY RD 2019
The site of line was towards front of house. Construction of houses and the excavation of the road has destroyed all evidence.
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APPROXIMATE PLACE WHERE FORMER BRANCH CROSSED 2016
Far side has been completely re-landscaped because of open cut activity
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LOOKING NORTH DIAGONALLY ACROSS MT CROSBY RD TOWARDS OPEN LEVEL CROSSING SITE.
Former line passed through what is now the front yard of white house.
Photo taken what was probably overburden for the Rylance-Abermain Mine.
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GENERAL VIEW OF RYLANCE-ABERMAIN OPENCUT AREA 2019
Looking west. Line would have passed through this area but topography has completely changed.
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POSSIBLE SITE OF CHURCH STREET OPEN LEVEL CROSSING 2018
Looking north-east. From here line would have curved round to Mount Crosby Road.
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Church Street to Abermain Colliery Site
1914 WORKING PLAN & SECTION ABERMAIN BRANCH (SOUTH)
Source: Qld Railways Archives
FROM ABOVE; SOUTHERN PART OF ABERMAIN BRANCH
(A) Church Street Open Level Crossing site
(B) Whole site excavated for sports field
(C) Site of Abermain Coke Ovens & tramway
(D) Surviving deep cutting
(E) Site of Abermain Yard; now completely erased by later opencut.
Overlay: QGIS Vectors (Alister J Cameron)
Underlay: Qld Globe (Ausmap)
LOOKING SOUTH-WEST ACROSS CHURCH STREET 2019
The line passed to the left of the building on the far side of the road and then diagonally across the two sports fields. This whole section has been excavated and relanscaped.
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THE SECOND SPORTS FIELD LOOKING SOUTH 2019
Line would have travelled from left to right and would have hit the fence around current position of tall, white gum.
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FORMER ALLIGNMENT THAN PASSES THROUGH VERY THICK SCUB AND DISTURBED GROUND 2019.
Path of line is extremely difficult to track though the current picture may be of an embankment remnant.
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SAME AREA VIEWED FROM SOUTH SHOWING THE THICKNESS OF VEGETATION
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LOOKING SOUTH-WEST TOWARDS THE BEGINNING OF A DEEP CUTTING 2019
The road in front is a relatively new feeder road to a third set of sports fields.
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MOVING SOUTH-WEST INTO THE MAIN CUTTING WHERE TRAMWAY CROSSED 1991
A few timbers still remain at this stage.
Heritage Study (U.Q.) 1991
Ipswich Council Library Record number:
205030
SIMILAR POSITION LOOKING WEST ACROSS TOP OF CUTTING 2014
The timbers have gone.
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LOOKING BACK TOWARDS THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CUTTING 2014
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FURTHER SOUTH-WEST ALONG CUTTING 2014
Heavily overgrown at this point
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END OF SURVIVING CUTTING LOOKING EAST 2014
Here an road embankment can be seen crossing the former allignment.
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LOOKING SOUTH-WEST ALONG FORMER ALLIGNMENT 2014
No evidence remains.
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ABERMAIN COLLIERY SITE LOOKING WEST 2014
Behind the trees in the far distance is the relatively modern Tantivy Street.
Opencut activity has changed the topography of the area completely.
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SOUTH-EAST SECTION OF AREA 2014
Many old mine artefacts remain on embankments at tree-line to the left.
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PART OF SITE SHOWING ERODED COAL BANKS AND SPOIL HEAPS 2014
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MINE DAM PROBABLY CONSTRUCTED FOR OPENCUT OPERATIONS 2019
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PROBABLE SHAFT JUST NORTH-EAST OF OPENCUT AREA 2014
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RUSTED REMAINS OF BOILER ON EARTH BANK EAST OF OPENCUT AREA 2018
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ANOTHER MINING RELIC IN SAME AREA 2014
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PILE OF ASH IN SAME AREA 2014
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LOOKING NORTH-WEST OVER TANTIVY STREET 2019
Photo taken from high embankment at edge of opencut area.
Tantivy Street, a bypass of part of Mt Crosby Rd cut through western portion of old Abermain area.
Road formation on nearer side evidences numerous broken bricks and other evidence of former mining activity.
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SOME BRICKS IN TANTIVY STREET ROAD FORMATION 2017
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WESTERN SIDE OF TANTIVY STREET 2018
Further mining remnants can be found on near side of timber wall.
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CLOSEUP OF WESTERN SIDE OF WALL 2018
Brick and coal remnants can be seen.
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