Maryborough Station
Maryborough Queensland is located about three hours drive north of Brisbane. Maryborough has almost always been a railway town, it’s the home of EDI where locomotives have been built for over 100 years, it was the home of the busiest branchline in Queensland, it was a crew change point on the north coast line and today it has lost a lot of its importance.
The main station in Maryborough never sees a passenger train anymore, crews are still changed here … but some of the crews are employed by another transport operator, and the busiest branch rarely sees a Government train these days.
But Maryborough is still worth visiting because you never know what you’re going to see in the yard.
When I took this photo just over 12 months ago there were two new Brisbane suburban carriages from EDI stored adjacent to the platform and what’s that peeking out of a shed at the end of the platform?
It’s a Queensland B15 class steam loco. It was built here in Maryborough when EDI was known as Walkers Engineering and one day it will be restored. Until that day comes it will sit under cover against the buffers at the end of the platform at Maryborough.
So if you’re heading north from Brisbane take the detour off the Bruce Highway and wander down to the station in the middle of Maryborough … you never know what might be sitting in the yard.