WORKING PLAN & SECTION WIDE GULLY AREA 1880s
Note coal sheds which were the predecessors of the later Coal Stage.
Working Plan & Section, Permanent Way, Revised
Series 17677 Revised Work Plans
Item 117539 Qld State Archives
WIDE GULLY AREA FROM ABOVE
Rail and bridge vector overlay 1860s-70s
Wide Gully Bridge in brown.
Later culvert replacing bridge in blue
Ausmap Qld Globe background
DESIGN DRAWING OF BRIDGE ONE, WIDE GULLY, OF PROPOSED MORETON BAY TRAMWAY EARLY 1860s
Tramway planned as a private concern but never constructed. Project was then taken over by the Queensland Government.
Source: Qld Railways Archives
DESIGN DRAWING WIDE GULLY BRIDGE 1863
Bridge No.2 of Southern & Western Railway
Source: Qld Railways Archives
DESIGN OF GIRDERS AND OTHER ITEMS WIDE GULLY BRIDGE 1863
Source: Qld Railways Archives
ORIGINAL WIDE GULLY BRIDGE
Note pedestrian bridge connecting Woodend to North Ipswich
Greg Jacko Lyons Lost Ipswich
Posted for another member - Personal Family photo
What Is Left Now
THE NOW FILLED IN WIDE GULLY 2011 LOOKING SOUTH
The group of shrubs on the left mark the position of the entrance to the culvert which replaced the bridge.
The Bremer River is on the right.
Note the points in the foreground which are left over after the Workshops south yard was truncated further north around 2005.
WIDE GULLY EMBANKMENT FROM THE EAST 2011
Culvert entrance is amongst the shrubs
Photo: Alister J Cameron
WIDE GULLY EMBANKMENT BEING TRAVERSED BY TRAIN 2019
Diesels were pushing an E.M.U. towards the Workshops where they were to be scrapped.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
WIDE GULLY CULVERT ON THE INSIDE 2018.
Trajectory is curved, probably following the path of the original gully.
Note board marks from when the concrete was poured.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
WIDE GULLY CULVERT WESTERN PORTAL 2014.
REMAINS OF WOODEND FOOTBRIDGE 2014.
During its history timber piles were replaced by steel, apparently making use at least in part, rails.
Photo: Alister J Cameron
