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Identifier: QueenslandRailwayAndTouristsGuide (find matches)
Title: Queensland Railway And Tourists Guide
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Archibald Meston
Subjects: State Library of Queensland Queensland Queensland Railways train travel tourist guide travel
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sure of subterraneanwinds, bordered by the blue hills on the heads of the Warrego,Maranoa, and Angellala, solemn in the purple gloom of sunset, greyin the sombre noon of night, or radiant with the glory of thedawn. Then on over the measureless level ocean of mulga, myall, andbrigalow scrubs, silent and shadowy, and lone as incarnate death;through avenues of tall grey bendee, the train descending longslopes, or climbing weary ascents, the two lines of rail converging inthe remote distance like the sides of an attenuated pyramid, theapex dipping into infinite vacuity or rising into the sky line, andseparated from the base by the sky descending in the interveningvale. And so through these mulga and myall and brigalow scrubs,past Alice Downs, embowered in cypress pines and graceful appletrees, we finally arrive at Charleville, the present terminus of therailway, which was opened through on the 1st March, 1888. CHARLEVILLE(966 feet) is an important little town, situated on the flat country
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Charleville Artesian Bore. TOOWOOMBA TO CHARLEVILLE. 49 of Gowrie Station, on the banks of the Warrego River. It wasnamed after Charleville, in County Cork, Ireland. From here you-can go across level country by Augathella, Tambo, and Blackall toBarcalcline, tlie terminus of the Rockhampton line, or by coach toCunnamulla, 120 miles; thence on to Barringun on the Border, afurther 80 miles ; from there to Bourke, an additional 200 miles, andthence down the New South Wales railway to Sydney. Around Charleville are the following stations and their dis-tances:—Arabella, 4; Riversleigh, 9; Wellwater 12; Nive Junction,35 ; Burrendilla and Dillala, 40 ; Mount Morris, 70 ; Oakwood, 60 ;and Yarran Vale, 70. Hotel accommodation is excellent—at the same charges as Romaand Toowoomba, 6s. to 10s. per day, and 30s. to 42s. per week.The climate is one of the best in Australia for eight months in theyear, a wonderfully light dry atmosphere, free from all malarialexhalations. In the winter, in June,

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