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The Ferny Grove railway line is a suburban railway line in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. It is part of the QR Citytrain network. ==History== A branch line was opened from a junction at Mayne (Bowen Hills) to Enoggera in February 1899 to serve the new cattle sales yards at Newmarket. The line was extended to Samford in 1918, and to Dayboro, the terminus in 1920.〔Kerr, J. 'Triumph of Narrow Gauge' Boolarong Publications 1990〕 The additional traffic on the line led to its duplication to Newmarket in 1921. The sales yards were moved to Cannon Hill in 1931. On 5 May 1947, a packed excursion train derailed at Camp Mountain, after Ferny Grove railway station, in what is Queensland's worst rail tragedy, the Camp Mountain train disaster. The line was duplicated to Mitchelton in 1953, and the first automatic level crossing boom gates in Queensland were installed at Wilston Road, Newmarket in 1954.〔Kerr, J. 'Brunswick St, Bowen Hills & Beyond' ARHS 1988〕 The line was closed beyond Ferny Grove in 1955 after the freight traffic was lost to road transport. Ferny Grove was initially known as Ferny Flats, but the railway department changed the name of the railway station because of a Ferny Flats in New South Wales; the surrounding area followed suit. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ferny Grove railway line」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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