WORKING PLAN & SECTION: FASSIFERN JNC TO SANDY CK
Book SE8
Churchill to Ipswich Workshops
FASSIFERN JUNCTION TO SANDY CREEK FROM ABOVE
Overlay: QGIS Vectors (Alister J Cameron)
Underlay: Qld Globe (Ausmap)
Junction to Bridge Over Gully
LOOKING NORTH-EAST TOWARDS FASSIFERN JUNCTION FROM CHALLINOR STREET 2012
Rail signage was still in place.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
LOOKING BACK IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION SOUTH ACROSS CHALLINOR STREET OPEN LEVEL CROSSING SITE 2012
One rail can still be seen embedded in bitumen.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
CATTLE TRAIN APPROACHING CHALLINOR ST OPEN LEVEL CROSSING TOWARDS FASSIFERN JUNCTION 1967
Robert Bushby Qld Govt Rways Days Gone By
SAME AREA IN 2012
Photo: Alister J Cameron
EXCURSION TRAIN CROSSING TIGER STREET OPEN LEVEL CROSS HEADING TOWARDS IPSWICH DATE UNKNOWN
Ross Hunter?
Queensland Government Railways, Days Gone By.
SAME SCENE LOOKING NORTH-EAST IN 2011
Photo: Alister J Cameron
LIVESTOCK TRAIN CROSSES TIGER STREET OPEN LEVEL CROSSING EARLY 1990s
Looking south-east towards Denmark Hill
Anthony McLaughlin?Queensland Government Railways, Days Gone By.
RAILWAY CROSSING SIGN ON TIGER STREET; STILL REMAINING IN 2011; 17 YEARS AFTER BRANCHCLOSURE
Photo: Alister J Cameron
SOUTH-WEST OF TIGER ST OPEN LEVEL CROSSING DATE UNKNOWN
Train heading towards Ipswich.
Ross Hunter
?Queensland Government Railways, Days Gone By.
SAME AREA IN 2011
Sign in distance marks beginning of gully
Photo: Alister J Cameron
COMMENCEMENT OF GULLY LOOKING SOUTH 2011
Was formerly spanned by a timber testle bridge.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
Brisbane Street Open Level Crossing Area
TRACK PLAN BRISBANE STREET OPEN LEVEL CROSSING AREA
"To The Scenic Rim"
(Look Out for Train 7)
Greg Cash
ARHS(QLD) 2019
p87
WORKING PLAN HANCOCK SIDING (WEST IPSWICH) 1887
Later taken over by Shillito & Sons.
G72
Workshops Rail Museum, Ipswich
SPANN'S SAWMILL 1910
Connected by a siding in 1904
Jubilee History of Ipswich
Edited by Geo Harrison
Printed and Published by H.H.Diddams & Co.
1910
ADD FOR SPANN'S SAWMILL 1905.
Presumably railway line in front is the Fassifern Branch.
Ron Williams Lost Ipswich
THE DEMISE OF SPANN'S SAWMILL 1948
Site was later taken over by Scotts of Ipswich.
Picture Ipswich qips-2011-03-04-0011p.jpg
STOCK TRAIN PROCEEDING OVER GULLY HEADING FOR CHURCHILL EARLY 1990s
The line curves around the site of Scotts of Ipswich before crossing Brisbane Street.
Scotts later became Vickers Ruwolt, then Bradken before the latter moved to Karrabin.
Source: Anthony McLaughlin
Qld Govt Railways Days Gone By
AERIAL PHOTO SCOTTS FOUNDRY AREA 1985
Note bridge over gully bottom left and Brisbane Street diagonally across photo.
Source: Picture Ipswich
Reference ID
qips-2015-12-15-004
CONCRETE FOUNDATION OF FORMER BRIDGE 2011.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
FENCE POSTS MADE FROM FORMER RAILS BRIDGE AREA 2016.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
CLOSEUP OF ONE OF RAILS 2016
Photo: Alister J Cameron
ALLIGNMENT HEADING SOUTH-EAST AROUND FORMER FOUNDRY SITE; NOW A SHOPPING CENTER 2011.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
LOOKING BACK THE OTHER WAY 2011
Photo: Alister J Cameron
REMAINS OF SCOTTS FOUNDRY SIDING EARLY 2000s
Photo: Alister J Cameron
SAME AREA IN 2017.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
EXCURSION TRAIN HEADING WEST ALONG KEOGH STREET DATE UNKNOWN.
Scotts Foundry is on the left.
Brisbane Street Open Level Crossing is in the distance.
Source: Unknown
SIMILAR POSITION: KEOGH STREET LOOKING EAST IN 2017.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
LOOKING BACK ACROSS BRISBANE STREET , ALONG KEOGH STREET 2019.
Tall pine tree marks where the line entered the street area.
Scotts Foundry site is on the right.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
KEOGH STREET ON EASTERN SIDE OF BRISBANE STREET OPEN LEVEL CROSSING 2011
Note that former signage and equipment still remains.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
FORMER VACUUM (MOBIL) OIL DEPOT 2016.
Siding formerly entered through the gates. Building has since been extended to cover area used by the siding.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
FORMER TICKLES WHOLESALERS BUILDING ON OTHER SIDE OF BRANCH.
It is unknown if they used the railway here to transport their goods.
Brisbane Street is in the foreground.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
Little Ipswich Area
FURTHER EAST ALONG KEOGH STREET DATE UNKNOWN
Line veered off to the left at this point.
Source: Unknown
SAME AREA IN 2017
Photo: Alister J Cameron
BRANCH RUNNING IN FRONT OF WEST IPSWICH POLICE STATION c1900
The gravel road in front is Keogh Street. From this point the line curved to the south.
Source:
Picture Ipswich
Reference ID
qips-2018-09-18-0041
SAME SITE IN 2023.
The original buildings are long gone.
Google Street View
LOOKING NORTH-WEST ACROSS POUND STREET OPEN LEVEL CROSSING SITE 2017
Road is raised in a slight hump at this point suggesting that rails may still be intact under the bitumin.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
RAILMOTOR ON BRANCH SOUTH-EAST OF POUND STREET NEAR LITTLE IPSWICH STATION
Retaining wall of Ipswich West State School can be seen at rear.
Source: Sandy Turner via Helen Munday?
Lost Ipswich
SAME SITE IN 2023
Source: Google Street View
LITTLE IPSWICH STATION DATE UNKNOWN
Greg Bansgrove Qld Govt Rways Days Gone By
LITTLE IPSWICH STATION DATE UNKNOWN
Shelter shed is gone so probably at a later date than previous photo.
Photo: D.G.Taylor
ARHS Bulletin 376 February 1969, p28
SIMILAR LOCATION IN 2017 (LOOKING SOUTH-EAST).
Photo: Alister J Cameron
LOOKING ALONG EMBANKMENT SOUTH-EAST OF STATION SITE 2011
Photo: Alister J Cameron
FURTHER SOUTH-EAST AT POINT WHERE CITY COLLIERY SIDING DIVERGED FROM BRANCH 2011
Photo: Alister J Cameron
JUNCTION AREA LOOKING BACK NORTH-WEST 2011.
Colliery siding veered off to the right.
Photo: Alister J Cameron.
FURTHER SOUTH LOOKING BACK OVER MOFFATT STREET OPEN LEVEL CROSSING SITE 2019.
The crossing was put in not long before closure of branch when Moffatt Street was extended west to join with Brisbane Street.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
MOFFATT STREET LOOKING SOUTH TOWARDS SANDY CREEK 2019.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
