Talk:Fitzroy Developmental Road

Draft history section notes

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• Southern segment (Taroom Bauhinia Downs Road)
  • Most direct route to market for Bauhinia Downs Station.
  • Miles railway station opened 1878.
  • Wandoan Railway station opened 1914.
  • Planned extension to Taroom was never built.

• Middle segment (Bauhinia to Duaringa)
  • Access to Duaringa railway station - opened 1876.

• Northern segment (Dingo to Strathfield)
  • Access to coalfields at Middlemount and Dysart.

Downsize43 (talk) 09:42, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

The first European settlement in the area of the Central Highlands Region that surrounds the current locality of Bauhinia probably occurred in the late 1850s. Settlers on Bauhinia Downs Station and others in the vicinity would have developed rough tracks to areas where they could access markets for their produce and obtain supplies. These would have been towards Rockhampton to the north-east, and towards Brisbane much further away to the south-east. The coming of railways in the 1870s would have had a major influence on the end points of roads from Bauhinia. A railway station opened at Duaringa (to the north-east) in 1876, and another at Miles (to the south-east) in 1878. The northern road from Bauhinia (middle segment of the Fitzroy Developmental Road) provides access to Duaringa, while the southern road provides access, via Taroom and Wandoan, to Miles. Downsize43 (talk) 01:40, 24 December 2017 (UTC)