Nanango railway line

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Nanango railway line
RM 1901 at Kingaroy station, c.1991
Overview
Locale	Queensland, Australia
Termini	Theebine Junction Nanango
History
Commenced	31 October 1882 (1882-10-31)
Opened	1 January 1886 (1886-01-01)
Completed	13 November 1911 (1911-11-13)
Closed	2011 (2011)
Technical
Track gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)

v t e Nanango Branch
Legend
North Coast line Theebine Junction Dickabram Dickabram Bridge over the Mary River Miva Sexton Wide Bay Creek Boowoogum Woolooga Woolooga Rail Bridge over Wide Bay Creek Wide Bay Creek Nondiga Oakview Bular Mouingba Kilkivan Wygarr Wide Bay Creek Cinnabar Kinbombi Creek Coleman Kinbombi Goomeri Nangur Creek Jura Creek Jura Creek Manyung Moondooner to Proston and Windera branches Murgon Barambah Creek Wondai Tingoora Wooroolin Memerambi Crawford Kingaroy Tarong branch Edenvale Hornley Coolabunia Hodgleigh Darlil Nanango

The Nanango railway line was a narrow-gauge branch railway located in Queensland, Australia. On 31 October 1882, parliament approved the construction of a branch line from Theebine (then called Kilkivan Junction) west to Kilkivan after gold and copper were discovered in this region of Queensland, Australia. The section was opened in two stages – to Dickabram on 1 January 1886 after two crossings of the Mary River and to Kilkivan on 6 December 1886.

Parliament approved an extension of the line south west to what became Kingaroy on 12 December 1900. The decision served to revitalise the previously unprofitable line, but such an indirect link with Brisbane faced stiff competition once roads were constructed direct from the area south east to the state's capital. Initially, as in many other places, railway construction forged the development of settlements along its path – in this instance Goomeri, Murgon, Wondai and Kingaroy townships were thus established.