Bowen Hills is a railway station located on the North Coast line in Queensland, Australia. It serves the Brisbane suburb of Bowen Hills. North of the station, the Ferny Grove line branches off. The station is one of four inner city stations that form a core corridor through the centre of Brisbane.[1]
History
There have been three railways stations named Bowen Hills. The first from 1882 to 1889 was near Campbell Street. In 1890, a new station opened at the south end of the Abbotsford Road tunnel. In 1971, to allow for the Mayne marshalling yards to be expanded, Bowen Hill and Mayne Junction stations were closed with a new Bowen Hills station opening in 1973.[2]
As part of the quadruplication of the line from Roma Street station, Platforms 3 and 4 opened on 11 June 1996.[3][4][5]
Accidents
In October 1904, Archibald Kerr, a 16-year-old boy, fell from a moving train near Bowen Hills station; the boy died from the injury to the back of his head caused by the fall. At the time, the train driver was not aware of the event until he was told about it by the signalman on the train's return journey at Brunswick Street station. The train gate was blamed as the cause of the accident at first, but after the gate was found to be in working order, the cause of the accident wasn't known.[6]
Services
Bowen Hills station is served by Airport, Beenleigh, Caboolture, Doomben, Ferny Grove, Redcliffe Peninsula, Shorncliffe, Springfield and Sunshine Coast line services.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Also see Inner City timetable[15] It is adjacent to the Mayne Stabling Yards, with many services terminating here.[16]
Platforms and services
| Bowen Hills platform arrangement | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | Line | Destination | Notes |
| 1 | Airport | Roma Street (to Gold Coast line) | |
| Doomben | Roma Street | ||
| Roma Street (to Cleveland line) | Evening peak only | ||
| Ferny Grove | Roma Street (to Beenleigh line) | ||
| Shorncliffe | Roma Street (to Cleveland line) | ||
| 2 | Airport | Domestic Airport | |
| Doomben | Doomben | ||
| Ferny Grove | Ferny Grove | ||
| Shorncliffe | Shorncliffe | ||
| 3 | Caboolture | Roma Street (to Ipswich/Rosewood line) | |
| Redcliffe Peninsula | Roma Street (to Springfield line) | ||
| Sunshine Coast | Roma Street (to Ipswich/Rosewood line) | ||
| 4 | Caboolture | Caboolture | |
| Redcliffe Peninsula | Kippa-Ring | ||
| Sunshine Coast | Nambour or Gympie North | ||
References
- "Cross River Rail Business Case August 2017" (PDF). Government of Queensland. p. 54. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
- Bowen Hills & Mayne Centre for Queensland Government
- "Roma Street – Bowen Hills Quadruplication Update" Railway Digest March 1995 page 14
- "Inner City Rail Expansion" Railway Digest July 1995 page 17
- "Additional City Tunnels & Track Commissioned" Railway Digest July 1996 page 17
- "Bowen Hills Railway Fatality". The Brisbane Courier. 18 October 1904. p. 4. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
- "Airport/Gold Coast Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
- "Beenleigh Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
- "Caboolture Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
- "Doomben Line timetable". TransLink. 2 March 2020.
- "Ferny Grove Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
- "Redcliffe Peninsula Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
- "Shorncliffe Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
- "Sunshine Coast Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
- "Inner City timetable" (PDF). Translink. 2 March 2020.
- South East Queensland Stabling Program Department of Transport & Main Roads
External links
Media related to Bowen Hills railway station at Wikimedia Commons- Bowen Hills station Queensland Rail
- Bowen Hills station Queensland's Railways on the Internet
