Bowen Hills railway station

Bowen Hills
Northbound view from Platform 2 in July 2012
Location	Abbotsford Road, Bowen Hills
Coordinates	27°26′43″S 153°02′15″E / 27.4454°S 153.0376°ECoordinates: 27°26′43″S 153°02′15″E / 27.4454°S 153.0376°E
Owned by	Queensland Rail
Operated by	City network
Line(s)	North Coast Ferny Grove
Distance	2.66 kilometres from Central
Platforms	4 (2 islands)
Construction
Structure type	Ground
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Status	Staffed
Station code	600005 (platform 1) 600000 (platform 2) 600002 (platform 3) 600007 (platform 4)
Fare zone	go card 1
Website	Queensland Rail
History
Opened	1973
Electrified	Yes
Services
Preceding station   Queensland Rail   Following station Fortitude Valley toward Roma Street Airport Line Albion toward Domestic Terminal Terminus Beenleigh Line Fortitude Valley toward Beenleigh Fortitude Valley toward Roma Street Caboolture Line Albion toward Caboolture Terminus Cleveland Line Fortitude Valley toward Cleveland Fortitude Valley toward Roma Street Doomben Line Albion toward Doomben Fortitude Valley toward Roma Street Ferny Grove Line Windsor toward Ferny Grove Terminus Gold Coast Line Fortitude Valley toward Varsity Lakes Terminus Ipswich and Rosewood Line Fortitude Valley toward Rosewood Fortitude Valley toward Roma Street Shorncliffe Line Albion toward Shorncliffe Terminus Springfield Line Fortitude Valley toward Springfield Central Fortitude Valley toward Roma Street Sunshine Coast Line Albion toward Nambour Caboolture toward Gympie North

Bowen Hills railway station is 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.

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.^[1]

As part of the quadruplication of the line from Roma Street station, Platforms 3 and 4 opened on 11 June 1996.^[2][3][4]

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.^[5]

Services

Bowen Hill station is served by Airport, Caboolture, Doomben, Ferny Grove, Shorncliffe, Springfield and Sunshine Coast line services.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]} It is adjacent to the Mayne Stabling Yards, with many services terminating here.^[13]

Services by platform

Platform	Lines	Destinations	Notes
1	Airport	City, Beenleigh & Varsity Lakes	[14]
	Doomben	City & Park Road	[14]
		City & Cleveland	Evening peak only[14]
	Ferny Grove	City & Beenleigh	[14]
	Shorncliffe	City & Cleveland	[14]
2	Airport	Brisbane Airport Domestic	[15]
	Caboolture	Caboolture	Early morning only[15]
	Doomben	Doomben	[15]
	Ferny Grove	Ferny Grove	[14]
	Shorncliffe	Shorncliffe	[15]
	Sunshine Coast	Gympie North	[15]
3	Caboolture	City, Springfield Central, Ipswich & Rosewood	[16]
	Sunshine Coast	City, Springfield Central & Ipswich	[16]
4	Caboolture	Caboolture	[17]
	Sunshine Coast	Nambour	[17]
		Gympie North	Weekday mornings only[17]

References

1. Bowen Hills & Mayne Centre for Queensland Government
2. "Roma Street - Bowen Hills Quadruplication Update" Railway Digest March 1995 page 14
3. "Inner City Rail Expansion" Railway Digest July 1995 page 17
4. "Additional City Tunnels & Track Commissioned" Railway Digest July 1996 page 17
5. "Bowen Hills Railway Fatality". The Brisbane Courier. 18 October 1904. p. 4. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
6. Airport line timetable TransLink 20 January 2014
7. Caboolture line timetable TransLink 20 January 2014
8. Doomben line timetable TransLink 20 January 2014
9. Ferny Grove line timetable TransLink 20 January 2014
10. Shorncliffe line timetable TransLink 20 January 2014
11. Springfield line timetable TransLink 20 January 2014
12. Sunshine Coast line timetable TransLink 20 January 2014
13. South East Queensland Stabling Program Department of Transport & Main Roads
14. Bowen Hills Platform 1 TransLink
15. Bowen Hills Platform 2 TransLink
16. Bowen Hills Platform 3 TransLink
17. Bowen Hills Platform 4 TransLink

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