BEAUDESERT RAILWAY... WHATS LEFT???

[@walkaboutwithrob]

Good work Pete! And the drone footage is extremely well done. Great to see more people doing local history content.

[@TekkitTaz]

I'm on the work crew that maintains the grass on sections on the line on a semi regular basis. They are lifting the whole line for a conversion to a “Rail Trail" for walking and riding. With the lifting starting about than 6 months ago.

[@darylkanofski9327]

If it does become a rail trail I hope they keep the bridge

[@philipcooper9779]

Thanks for that video Peter ,I worked on Beaudesert Rail back then , worked on the steam engine , carriages and the station also did the flagman at the road crossings from Beaudesert to Bethania

[@oldboilers]

Thank you for the fond memories depicted by the beautiful drone shots. My wife and I travelled on the great tourist venture from Logan village to Beaudesert shortly before it closed. My good friend, Percy F. was the driver at the regulater of the fine old steam locomotive. So sad to see the well patronised excursion closed down. Another Queensland icon lost.

[@JGrandcourt]

Thankyou for this wonderful video and taking time to film and produce this. Very sad end to my favourite branch line.

[@crickettragicfromdownunder8878]

Nice video. I was lucky enough to drive stock trains to Beaudesert with Qld Rail until it closed in 1995. There are rumours about the line going back to Beaudesert in the future travelling via the interstate line to Just south of Kagaru cross country to Veresdale then following the old line into Beaudesert (see tmr website Salisbury - Beaudesert rail corridor study).

[@uncle7162]

We had something like that here in Mackay. Mackay and most of North Queensland didn’t get hooked up till the mid 1920’s. So first of all a railline was set up going through the pioneer valley in the 1870’s and 80’s to transport sugar from the plantations. It was still Cape Gauge like the rest of Qld till the 90’s and when sections started getting sold to the mill. My grandmother used to catch a train upto the Finch Hatton show on it. Unfortunately the line was sold to the mills and switched to 2ft Cane Train Lines. We ran the last steam train in Queensland in Mackay and now there’s a BB18 Quarter class sitting there mostly restored waiting to be fired up again

[@TheHandgunhero]

@uncle7162 Those BB18 1/4 locos were sold to Downssteam in Toowoomba 2 years ago. One is operating under its own power and the other is yet to be transferred and restored. My godfather Bob Duvelle worked at the Mackay Heritage Railway project for 25 years until his death 3 years ago on 1079.

[@rmar127]

Surely it be able to better serve the growing community if it came in a little further noth to service Flagstone and Jimboomba as well. If it were to do this, it would help make it more financially feasible as the large and growing population in those suburbs would increase passenger numbers.

[@LeafFerret]

I've been looking for more videos of these. Thanks for this.

[@davegeros9314]

Housing developments going on around Beaudesert I'm told + existing housing developments around Logan Village. Thus line & formation should be mothballed for a future passenger feeder line to Bethania. However a retirement village was built on top of the formation at Waterford, go figure. Politicians can see past the next election cycle.

[@muddyboots007]

Five million was spent prior to the year 2001 Centenary of Federation. They ran steak train trips until farmers were complaining about grass fires so it was closed. The six fully maintained Rail Motors at Ipswich could have been used but Newman ripped up the level crossings and now it's a multi million dollar job

[@markspin4596]

Totally agree...

[@DirtySlapper99]

Yeah yeah and the 100 others needed and are coming in the future 🤦 reality check tho we're not safe in our house's and the ppl in charge don't fucking care

[@bradleypark1936]

Thank-you Pete. I live at Tamborine. I have an avid interest this historic local line. I have searched google earth and visited most of the spots featured in your video. Beaudesert council have torn up the historic railyard and most of the livestock pens for "local improvement"...unfortunately. To me this feels like a disrespect for our predecessors. Thankfully the station is still there for now. The drone views offer a very nice perspective. Cheers and thanks Pete, Brad.

[@glengreen362]

Considering the increasing urban spread along the corridor south towards Beaudesert, I have always thought that it was very short sighted of the State Government not to upgrade the Beaudesert Railway into a commuter line, reducing road traffic from the nearby highway. They built a brand new line to Springwood and built a long overdue line to Redcliffe. Why not Beaudesert?

[@darrylowen6713]

Springfield NOT Springwood

[@glengreen362]

You're right. I don't know why I typed in Springwood. Thanks for correcting me, even if it is a bit embarrassing. But the thought is still the same.

[@matta2738]

Because we do things backwards in this country. We'll put in thousands of homes and worry about the issues of roads and rail 15 years after it becomes a problem

[@JBofBrisbane]

Beaudesert would be better served by connecting the line south of Veresdale to the standard gauge corridor, providing a more direct route to Brisbane than via Bethania. On the other hand, Bethania/Logan Village/Tamborine Village might be worth resurrecting one day soon, although a couple of kilometres of line south of Logan Village is now a street.

[@hw4527]

Thank you for posting 👍👍

[@Ark_Exercise]

Very relaxing video, the nature scenery out their looks unreal, it would be fun to walk the line complety on the tracks

[@Marsh4lls]

Stumbled across your video, and surprised to get local content. Was even more surprised how professional the production was, well done.

[@dansxmods]

Awesome video I didn't know I needed to watch. Thank you for your part in preserving this local history. I can't believe I've been looking at all parts of this line for almost 30 years.

[@qldfirefighter1]

I Deliver goods to various Fire stations in Logan and the scenic and these places are just behind the bushes at various places of drive on an almost daily basis. Thanks for showing me what i never see. it gives me a historical perspective on things. Also i grew up visiting the Chullora yards in nsw regularly with my uncle as a kid im, fascinated by old rail

[@dshack4689]

beautiful drone footage and music! all i could suggest is perhaps some maps (openmaps?) context. would love to see a similar attempt for the Dayboro line if you were looking for another line to trace. Cheers =)

[@GdayitsPete]

Thanks for the feed back, it’s still a hobby at the moment, I’m still working 60+ hours a week. Maps and overlays are things I’m learning about now.

[@captainmort]

I live at Woodhill not far from the line. The track was only lifted about six months ago down this way. Sad to see another line fade into history.

[@lordoffishtown4455]

I drove out that way to Wyaralong a couple weeks back and noticed all the rail bridges had been gated.

[@noelkelly4354]

Times change, they use to have the track up within 6 to 24 months after they closed a line.

[@gamesmithoz]

It looks like most of the land is still reserved. As Brisbane inevitably expands It may want to reestablish some of these old rail lines. However I see in some places there are houses close by and it is very narrow (1 Track). So a railway on this land would upset those people living close by. Very professional looking video - well done!

[@huxley7657]

Great content Mate, loving it!!!

[@harmer4245]

Nice camera work, particularly with the drone. Looking forward to the forthcoming Canungra episode mate.

[@chrisbampton7705]

Good quality drone footage. I remember this being a working line and also the Bi- Centenary attempt to have it operate as a tourist line. I have walked parts of it, and recently much of it was walkable following the line and sleepers being ripped up. Since this summer rain, much of it is now overgrown. I walked a few km of it last week, south of Jimboomba. Let’s hope that money is forthcoming from all levels of Govt to turn it into a rail trail. This has been mooted for years, but seems slow in development. Note the popularity of the BVRT and the new NRRT. It would be a great asset for Logan/Scenic Rim . Maybe you could follow up with a similar coverage of the few remnants of the Beaudesert - Lamington/ Rathdowney line - an interesting history.

[@michaelclement1337]

With the way Brisbane is expanding the corridor will eventually be needed again for an urban passenger service

[@TheHandgunhero]

It won't be the same alignment, the plan is to break off the interstate line and join the Beaudesert line at Veresdale.

[@rogermace4516]

Well done Pete great Vid Shall look forward to seeing more from you

[@peterblack1538]

G’day Pete, it’s Pete here! Yep we share the same name mate and I think this video is great. I have just come across your channel on my KZbin feed and have already subscribed to it. I am a keen rail enthusiast and feel sad that one stupid state government after another has closed so many rail lines throughout Queensland. I noticed that you received a recommendation from walkabout with Rob and that should mean a lot as his videos are also excellent. Cheers Pete and go well mate.

[@tezthetruckie]

Great video mate.

[@johngabbie3899]

That was very interesting. I have often driven to Beaudesert and observed the remaining bridges visible from the road. Thankyou for filling in the gaps.

[@dodgeboy9052]

Good Work Pete ... cheers a little bit of memory ...

[@ValRigoli]

Loved this video, very well done, I had no idea there was so much infrastructure still remaining, I have gotten so used to seeing everything ripped up and torn down! You have earned another sub mate 😁

[@railtrolley]

I've often wondered why, at Jimboomba, a new bridge over the railway formation, for the Mt Lindsay hwy service road, was built? The bridge was built years after the closure of the line. If the line was never intended to re-open, then filling in the cutting would have made more sense, than a bridge, which will require maintenance in the future.

[@raysmith1051]

Rail trail in replacement.

[@rsinclair6560]

Really great mini documentary well done. You may like to film the North East Tasmanian Railway. Coldwater Creek to Scottsdale and Herrick. Rails still there to Scottsdale.

[@johnprice2606]

Enjoyable video Pete. I attempted to follow and photograph the Fassifern Valley rail line Boonah and Mount Edwards line) but very little evidence remains other than a couple of buildings and the earthworks, No tracks or sleepers remain. There is a short walking track from above the visitor info centre in Boonah to Podock Rd called the Rail Trail that goes through some interesting cuttings.

[@PiKLMedia]

Very nice footage mate. Great job. :)

[@mpkcleaningservices-cardet2835]

Having grown up in Beenleigh I remember the old level crossing at Bethania before the overpass pass was there I remember having to wait for the cattle trains to go by whenever we headed over to bethania way in the 80’s & 90’s always thought back then a passenger service should’ve been resurrected,

[@philsimpson2587]

Thanks Pete for posting this interesting bit of local Qld history. I am from the Blue Mountains in NSW but I lived in Southport as a kid during WW !1 and I remember the train from Southport use to past though Beaudesert on the way to Brisbane and I am wondering if the railway you show here was part of the original Southport line?

[@chuckanoo1455]

The Beaudesert line 'spurred' off from near Beenleigh. The line never ran form Southport to Beaudesert.

[@stbern16]

The old Logan Village railway station building is beautifully restored by my brother, found at Barney Creek Vineyard Cottages. It's a couples retreat, along with 3 other restored buildings

[@GdayitsPete]

Thanks for the comment, I found that out a couple of months ago. It’s on our list to visit.

[@billkellett2375]

As a New South Wales resident I ask, could the standard gauge line be utilized to servise sections of the area?

[@railtrolley]

The standard gauge line does pass near beaudesert, a few kilometres west of it: at bromelton. SCT has an inter-modal yard there. This is also where one of the proposed terminus is for the Inland Rail.

[@4sayken]

Thanks mate, brilliant video. Live in beauy myself only wish I lived in those simpler times

[@blueskyboys9855]

Great video Pete

[@Stevei-075]

Back in the 90's i was with a group of train buffs , I researched the line from tugun to southport. It's sad is was all ripped up in thew 70's couple of buildings in Mudgeeraba , we even built it in miniture HO30 or TT PB15 loco . I'd build another layout in my retirement.

[@robertdavey319]

Sad it's all going

[@chrisj1475]

It's a sad sight to see an abandoned track in the middle of nowhere. Forgotten. As a kid, being driven past some of these old lines I think about what it was like with the trains still running along them. Personally, I think they should fully dismantle the lines or put them in some historical protection scheme.

[@coasterblocks3420]

At least the corridor still exists so there is hope in the future, with cross river rail, that plans to rebuild the line can move ahead.

[@jasonpeisley6031]

The current proposal is totally different path and origin, from Salisbury, instead of Bethania, unfortunately..

[@mjtunstall1976]

i hope the QR keep those lines i tact for future housing developments soon just like they closed the dayboro track!

[@gnwtiling]

I live in Jimboomba and they have recently ripped up the tracks going through the town , nice drone shots of the town

[@Sam_Green____4114]

It could re-open as a tourist railway with a little bit of work !

[@shaynescott3039]

Enjoyed the video.

[@Nae98]

Great video 👌🏻

[@darylkanofski9327]

Can't find the video about the line from Beaudesert to Canungra

[@jeremybarker8615]

The line apparently also in the earlier years went on to canungra from logan village also but there isnt much info on it and it was pulled up a long time ago. There is evidence of rail bridges on private property across the albert river down before tambourine village

[@JGrandcourt]

Hi Jeremy, You are right there is very limited info on the web, however as a train geek, I am aware of good info out there. A book called “Destination South Brisbane” by the Australian Railway Historical Society (ARHS) has a section on the Canungra and Beaudesert branches. Also the ARHS had magazines which had articles on these too, but probably would require a visit to the John Oxley Library, but I do understand not an easy thing to do. Thankyou for letting us know what is remaining of that branch line.

[@brownie8235]

Was there ever any rail line out to Rathdowney?

[@GdayitsPete]

Thanks for the comment. It was considered a tramway. Stay tuned for that one…

[@chuckanoo1455]

It was actually a "Tramway" Same as the one to Canungra was a "Tramway"

[@stevelawrie9115]

There is practically no transport infrastructure to Beaudesert at all now. About one and a half to two hours south of Brisbane and about one and a half hours to the Gold Coast. Great historical doco.

[@mrwolsy3696]

Salisbury to Beaudesert will be the replacement, in 2040 so they say.

[@aaronpeaty6619]

Hey Pete i am from NSW when i watched the video first thought i had in mind was if there was a club or a group what you could do is restore and rebuild the longest piece of the line where the bridges are get a couple of locomotive's and build a engine shed at one end to store them and offer rides to the general public up and down on some of the line like what they have done here at the ZIGZAG railway i am sure family and kids would love that experience and it would keep some of the line from being demolished if i had the money i would be the first person to come up and make that happen just a thought

[@daisymaythevxn]

right now while im watching this, the sub count is at 999 time to be the 1000th sub fellow Queenslander here

[@GdayitsPete]

Congratulations…

[@stick0035]

So sad to see such short sighted tunnel vision. In another 100yrs personal private transport will either be illegal or impractical and all this infrastructure will have to be rebuilt for mass transport.

[@bringer456]

I remember telling a local politician that at least it should be turned into a bike rail trail , he replied there are talks of reinstating the track possibly with a tram car

[@shinkicker404]

Always makes me sad seeing old rails that have been shut down. In some cases it feels kind of short sighted and others its kind of a death knell for an entire region on top of the general loss of history.

[@darylkanofski9327]

How history gets forgotten about

[@chuckanoo1455]

Considering the amount of vehicular traffic between Brisbane & Beaudesert, It is imperative that this line is rebuilt and opened up to the public! As the governments want us to go "green" and use public transport, then this railway line and others around the State must be reopened as the best alternative option.

[@rmar127]

This is the first ive heard of this line. Such a crying shame that near sighted politicians have decided to rip up all the old lines. Imagine how much better our public transport would be if all the old rail lines were somehow magically restored. Imagine also if from beaudesert, the line was extended just a little further west to link up with the main line at bromelton. I’d imagine that if the rail line ran along Camp Cable rd, It is likely that the Americans built a siding to service Camp Cable during WW2.

[@geoffgunn9673]

Another corridor they will regret removing

[@philgray3443]

I feel the same when driving along the side of the old tram lines up the old Cleveland Road. The people that made the decision to sceap the trams have no regrets because mostly they are dead.

[@geoffgunn9673]

@@philgray3443 I look at the corridor that still exists form Colton to Hervey Bay on the wide bay line. Had a triangle there. Only ripped it out in the 80's IIRC but the corridor is still intact. Stupid decision to take that line out the way the population is moving north.

[@tbillington]

It's a short sighted disgrace that this line has been decommissioned. The state government is happy to have tens of thousands of people move to the Beauy/Jimboomba area, but have done zero to cater for moving those people around.

[@rongoodall1066]

SO SAD an indication where we are going.

[@grahamsengineering.2532]

I went on one of the last steam excursions in the early 90's to Beaudesert. Such a shame to see this let go because of stupid lazy government. The line should have been upgraded and used for regular passenger services.

[@grantnewby3756]

What about making it a rail trail ?

[@rodneydrew9117]

again they build these lines then they close them

[@davidwalpole4303]

No one lives out that way just ask the government besides it would cost to much to fix up and we need the money for the Olympic stadiums

[@Craig-fe7zv]

HEY go do something about its jobs clean up cut up grass Off railway rail lines mowers lawn railway and fixed up rails Line need steam engine Train come back On rails Line ohhhh yeahhhh yes come on

[@geoffgeoff143]

You would do well to familiarise yourself with the official protocols concerning Australia's national flag.

[@GdayitsPete]

Fantastic comment. I sincerely hope, you have also contacted Australia’s leading retailers about their annual desecration of our beloved flag. Have a great day Geoff.