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Bowen Hills railway station, Brisbane

Bowen Hills
Bowen Hills Railway Station, Queensland, July 2012.JPG
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°E / -27.4454; 153.0376Coordinates: 27°26′43″S 153°02′15″E / 27.4454°S 153.0376°E / -27.4454; 153.0376
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
toward Roma Street
Airport Line
Terminus Beenleigh Line
toward Beenleigh
toward Roma Street
Caboolture Line
toward Caboolture
Terminus Cleveland Line
toward Cleveland
toward Roma Street
Doomben Line
toward Doomben
toward Roma Street
Ferny Grove Line
toward Ferny Grove
Terminus Gold Coast Line
Terminus Ipswich and Rosewood Line
toward Rosewood
toward Roma Street
Redcliffe Peninsula Line
toward Kippa-Ring
toward Roma Street
Shorncliffe Line
toward Shorncliffe
Terminus Springfield Line
toward Roma Street
Sunshine Coast Line
toward Nambour
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.

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.

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

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.

Bowen Hill station is served by Airport, Caboolture, Doomben, Ferny Grove, Redcliffe Peninsula, Shorncliffe, Springfield and Sunshine Coast line services. It is adjacent to the Mayne Stabling Yards, with many services terminating here.


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