Aramac Shire Tramway
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Aramac Tramway Museum, 2011
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| Location | Boundary Street, Aramac, Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 22°58′31″S 145°14′46″E / 22.9752°S 145.2462°ECoordinates: 22°58′31″S 145°14′46″E / 22.9752°S 145.2462°E |
| Design period | 1900 - 1914 (early 20th century) |
| Built | 1912 - 1913 |
| Official name: Aramac Tramway Museum, Aramac Tramway Station | |
| Type | state heritage (archaeological, built) |
| Designated | 26 November 1999 |
| Reference no. | 601172 |
| Significant period | 1912-1970s (historical) 1912 - ongoing (social) |
| Significant components | shed - goods, platform, yards - livestock, out building/s, machinery/plant/equipment - transport - rail |
 Location of Aramac Tramway Museum in Queensland
Location of Aramac Tramway Museum in Queensland
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Aramac Tramway Museum is a heritage-listed former tramway station and now a museum at Boundary Street, Aramac, Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1912 to 1913. It is also known as Aramac Tramway Station. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 26 November 1999.
The Aramac Tramway Museum was constructed as the Aramac Tramway Station in 1912-1913, funded by the Aramac Shire Council. It closed on 31 December 1975.
When Queensland separated from New South Wales in 1859, the new Queensland Government was quick to throw open land for grazing, and a great wave of pastoral settlement swept across western and northern Queensland in the early 1860s.
The establishment of towns in the west soon followed, for example Tambo, Blackall and Aramac which developed as commercial centres to service the pastoral industry. Aramac Town Reserve was gazetted on 26 June 1869 and the first businesses were established in the town that same year. On 6 April 1880, local government commenced when the Aramac Divisional Board, established under the Divisional Boards Act 1879, held its first meeting in the Court House.
Nineteenth century Queensland development was further influenced by the pattern of building railway lines west into the hinterlands from the major ports, first Main Line railway from near Brisbane in 1865, then the Central Western railway line from Rockhampton in 1867 and the Great Northern Railway from Townsville in 1880. The Central Western Line reached Barcaldine in 1886 and was extended to Longreach in 1892. These towns were founded when the railway arrived, and had the immediate effect of taking business away from the nearby well-established towns of Aramac and Blackall.
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