Graceville railway station, Brisbane

Graceville
Northbound view from Platform 2 in August 2012
Location	Honour Avenue, Graceville
Coordinates	27°31′14″S 152°58′33″E / 27.5206°S 152.9759°E / -27.5206; 152.9759Coordinates: 27°31′14″S 152°58′33″E / 27.5206°S 152.9759°E / -27.5206; 152.9759
Owned by	Queensland Rail
Operated by	City network
Line(s)	Main
Distance	9.47 kilometres from Central
Platforms	4 (2 island)
Construction
Structure type	Ground
Other information
Status	Staffed
Station code	600303 (platform 1) 600304 (platform 2) 600305 (platform 3) 600306 (platform 4)
Fare zone	go card 1/2
History
Opened	1876
Rebuilt	1959
Electrified	Yes
Services
Preceding station   Queensland Rail   Following station Chelmer toward Bowen Hills Ipswich and Rosewood Line Sherwood toward Rosewood Chelmer toward Bowen Hills Springfield Line Sherwood toward Springfield Central

Graceville railway station
Location of Graceville railway station in Queensland
Location	110 Long Street, Graceville, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates	27°31′14″S 152°58′33″E / 27.5206°S 152.9759°E / -27.5206; 152.9759
Built	1958-9
Architect	John Sidney Egan & Jan Kral
Architectural style(s)	Modernism
Queensland Heritage Register
Official name: Graceville Railway Station
Type	state heritage (built)
Designated	12 June 2009
Reference no.	602717
Significant period	1959 -
Significant components	railway station
Builders	Railways Department

Graceville railway station is a heritage-listed railway station at 110 Long Street, Graceville, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is on the Main line, serving the suburb of Graceville. It was designed by John Sidney Egan and Jan Kral and built from 1958 to 1959 by Railways Department. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 12 June 2009.

Graceville station is served by City network Ipswich & Rosewood and Springfield line services.

Graceville Railway Station is located approximately nine and a half kilometres outbound on the Brisbane-Ipswich line (completed in 1875), one of seven rail lines radiating from the Brisbane central business district to serve the passenger, coal and freight markets of south-east Queensland. The station was established in 1884 to service new residential subdivisions, and had gained its current format by 1958-1959. It services the south-west commuter suburb of Graceville and comprises two island platforms with a butterfly-roofed station building of brick and concrete, four steel and timber platform awnings and a subway system linking the leafy suburb on both sides of the tracks. It was one of a suite of station fit-outs carried out from the early 1950s and into the 1960s in anticipation of the electrification and quadruplication of the rail lines between Nundah and Corinda, and stands out as the first one completed, the most successful resolution of the design themes explored by the Railway Department's architects, and the most intact.

The passing of the Railway Act in 1863 initiated the era of state government owned and operated railways. The first such rail line between Ipswich and Grandchester was built in 1865, being part of a four-stage project that linked to Toowoomba in 1867, Dalby in 1868 and then to Warwick in 1871. In August 1872 Parliament approved the construction the Brisbane railway, but only from Ipswich to Oxley. A survey was required to select the appropriate site for a bridge over the Brisbane River and Oxley Point (now Chelmer) was chosen. On 5 October 1874 the line from Ipswich to Oxley West (now Sherwood) opened. It was extended to Oxley Point early the following year with a ferry transporting passengers across the river until the Albert Bridge, named after Queen Victoria's Consort, was opened on 5 July 1876 allowing a connection to the newly completed Indooroopilly line.