Archer Park Rail Museum, Rockhampton

Documents from the Museum Archives for personal research use only

Historical Notes: Brief topical handouts on the Purrey Trams, Archer Park Station, and Central Queensland's rail heritage.
Rockhampton's Tram System (2 pages)
Archer Park Railway Station, Rockhampton (2 pages)
Railway Pioneering: My 58 Years as a railway man by William Morrow (personal recollections, 9 pages)
Rockhampton's Ports (2 pages)
Great Northern Line (Central Railway) to Westwood (2 pages)
Social History Transcripts: A series of interviews with ex-railway workers describing their railway life and times.
Blair Jamieson, Bill Head (21:38)
Blair Jamieson, Bill Head (10:27)
Blair Jamieson, Bill Head (8:20)
Blair Jamieson (26:24)
Blair Jamieson (6:43)
Bill Head (30:43)
Blair Jamieson, Bill Head (44:08)
Tram Restoration Clippings
Mayor seeks support to restore steam tram. The Morning Bulletin, 25 September 1984
CEB: Back to the Age of Steam - CEB helps with Purrey tram project, and Bicentennial Authority Thanks Board, The Enlightener, c 1986.
You Can Still Help the Purrey Project. The Morning Bulletin, c 1987
Maryborough firm gives new heart to transport veteran of Queensland. Maryborough-Hervey Bay Chronicle, 18 July 1987
Duthie, Les (1997). Reiteration (Letter to Editor), The Morning Bulletin, 18 October
Published Articles (listed in order of date of publication)
Official Launch of the Purrey Steam Tram 5 June 1909. The Morning Bulletin, 7 June 1909
Queensland Railways (1937). Index to Station Names from the Timetable, 23 May 1937 (Very large, 3.9 Mb, pdf file).
Armstrong, John (1963). The BB 18 1/4-Class Locomotives of Queensland Railways, ARHS Bulletin, 310: August.
Knowles, JW (1965). One Hundred Years of Railways in Queensland, ARHS Bulletin 338: December
McCarthy, Ken (1972). Rockhampton -- Revisited, Trolley Wire, 140: June
Knowles, JW (1974). Provincial Suburban Trains on the Queensland Railways, ARHS Bulletin 439: May
Knowles, JW (1974). The Rockhampton City Tramways, ARHS Bulletin, 440: June
Knowles, JW (1974). The Rockhampton City Tramways (cont), ARHS Bulletin, 442: August
Knowles, JW (1974). The Rockhampton City Tramways (cont), ARHS Bulletin, 443: September
Knowles, JW (1976). The Rockhampton City Tramways (corrections and additions), ARHS Bulletin, 468: October
Armstrong, John (1981). The B15 Class Goods Locomotives (Queensland Railways), ARHS Bulletin, 527: September.
Short, CC (Ed) (1981). Here and There: Queensland, supplement to ARHS Bulletin, 527, September.
McCarthy, K (1984). Rockhampton Tramways - 75 years of Council transport, Trolley Wire, 212: June
Milne, Rod (1988). The Alton Downs Branch, ARHS Bulletin, 604: February
TOMM (1988). Purrey Steam Tram, The Olde Machinery Mart, 16: April
McCarthy, K (1988). Triumph in the North - The recommissioning of the Rockhampton Purrey Steam Car, Trolley Wire, 234: August
QR Corporate Affairs and Marketing (nd, c 2009?), A History of Queensland Rail from 1866 (8 pages)
Old Glory (2009). Rockhampton Purrey steam tram centenary, Old Glory, August
Unpublished Papers
Steam Trams (nd). Building and disposition details
Brookfield, Mervyn S (nd). Remembering an Early Excursion Trip to Emu Park in the Early 1940's [sic], Rockhampton, 6 pp including dates sections opened for traffic and nomenclature of CQ Railway Stations between Rockhampton and Emu Park.
Kennedy, Michael (1994). Archer Park Railway Station [Conservation Plan], Robert Riddel Architect, 18 May
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