History
For more details on this topic, see Rail transport in Queensland. See also: Camp Mountain rail accidentA branch line was opened from a junction at Mayne (Bowen Hills) to Enoggera in February 1899 and to Ferny Grove in 1918. The area was initially known as Ferny Flats, but the railway department changed the name of the railway station because of a Ferny Flats in New South Wales; the surrounding area followed suit. The line reached Dayboro, via Samford, on 27 September 1920.
On 5 May 1947, a packed excursion train derailed at Camp Mountain, after Ferny Grove railway station, in what is Queensland's worst rail tragedy, the Camp Mountain train disaster.
As part of a larger rationalisation by the Government of Queensland of its train lines, the line was closed from Dayboro back to Ferny Grove in 1955 due to declining traffic.
Read more about this topic: Ferny Grove Railway Line
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