Rosewood railway station

Rosewood
Rosewood station in May 2012
General information
LocationRailway Street, Rosewood
Coordinates27°38′35″S 152°35′33″E / 27.6430°S 152.5926°E / -27.6430; 152.5926
Owned byQueensland Rail
Operated byQueensland Rail
Line(s)Main
Distance56.97 kilometres from Central
Platforms2 side
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeGround
Parking33 bays
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleYes
Other information
StatusStaffed
Station code600362 (platform 1)
600363 (platform 2)
Fare zonego card 4
WebsiteQueensland Rail
History
Opened1865
ElectrifiedYes
Services
Preceding station Queensland Rail Queensland Rail Following station
Thagoona
towards Bowen Hills
 Ipswich & Rosewood Line Terminus
Thagoona
towards Ipswich
 Ipswich & Rosewood Line
Rosewood shuttle
Ipswich
towards Brisbane
 The Westlander Laidley
towards Charleville

Rosewood railway station is located on the Main line railway in Queensland, Australia. It serves the town of Rosewood.

History

The now-closed Marburg branch railway line split from the Main Line railway at Rosewood.[1]

Services

Rosewood is the western terminus of the electrified Brisbane City network. It is the terminus for all services to/from Ipswich, with some peak-hour services continuing to Bowen Hills and Caboolture.[2]

Rosewood is served by Queensland Rail Travel's twice weekly Westlander travelling between Brisbane and Charleville.[3]

Services by platform

Station in 2015
Platform Line Destinations Notes
1 Ipswich & Rosewood Bowen Hills, Caboolture & Nambour Morning peak only[4]
Ipswich [4]
2 Ipswich & Rosewood Kippa-Ring Afternoon peak only[5]
Queensland Rail Travel Brisbane Roma Street & Charleville [3]

Bus Queensland Lockyer Valley operate one bus route to and from Rosewood station:

This route was once serviced by McCafferty's Express Coaches (now operating under the auspices of Greyhound Australia) which continued onto Toowoomba where it connected with Rail motor service 5R16 from Toowoomba to Roma which operated until 1993.

References

  1. ^ "The Marburg Branch : a brief history of a 20th century branch line and other lines of the Walloon coalfields". ARHS NSW. Archived from the original on 3 April 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Ipswich Rosewood Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Westlander & Inlander timetable" (PDF). Queensland Rail Travel. 19 September 2020.
  4. ^ a b Rosewood Platform 1 TransLink
  5. ^ Rosewood Platform 2 TransLink
  6. ^ "Route 539 timetable". Translink.
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