Rosewood railway station

{{Short description|Railway station in Queensland, Australia}}

{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Rosewood

| style = TransLink (Queensland)

| image = Rosewood Railway Station, Queensland, May 2012.JPG

| image_caption = Rosewood station in May 2012

| address = Railway Street, Rosewood

| country =

| coordinates = {{coord|-27.6430|152.5926|format=dms|type:railwaystation_region:AU-QLD|display=inline,title}}

| elevation =

| distance = 56.97 kilometres from Central

| line = Main

| other =

| structure = Ground

| platform = 2 side

| depth =

| levels =

| tracks = 2

| parking = 33 bays

| bicycle = Yes

| opened = 1865

| closed =

| rebuilt =

| electrified = Yes

| accessible = Yes

| code = 600362 (platform 1)
600363 (platform 2)

| owned = Queensland Rail

| operator = Queensland Rail

| zone = go card 4

| status = Staffed

| former =

| passengers =

| pass_year =

| pass_percent =

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| services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=Queensland Rail

|line1=Ipswich and Rosewood|left1=Thagoona

|line2=Ipswich and Rosewood|left2=Thagoona|to-left2=Ipswich|note-mid2=Rosewood shuttle

|line3=The Westlander|left3=Ipswich|right3=Laidley

}}

| map_locator =

| web = [http://www.queenslandrail.com.au/AllStations/Pages/AllStations.aspx?StationName=Rosewood Queensland Rail]

}}

Rosewood railway station is located on the Main line railway in Queensland, Australia. It serves the town of Rosewood.

History

The now-closed Marburg branch railway line split from the Main Line railway at Rosewood.{{Cite web|title=The Marburg Branch : a brief history of a 20th century branch line and other lines of the Walloon coalfields|url=https://arhsnsw.com.au/product/the-marburg-branch-2nd-ed/|access-date=2022-02-25|website=ARHS NSW|language=en-AU|archive-date=3 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210403162036/https://arhsnsw.com.au/product/the-marburg-branch-2nd-ed/|url-status=live}}

Services

Rosewood is the western terminus of the electrified Brisbane City network. It is the terminus for all services to/from Ipswich, with some peak-hour services continuing to Bowen Hills and Caboolture.{{Queensland Timetables|Ipswich}}

Rosewood is served by Queensland Rail Travel's twice weekly Westlander travelling between Brisbane and Charleville.{{Queensland Timetables|Westlander}}

Services by platform

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Platform

!Line

!Destinations

!Notes

rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1

|rowspan="2" style=background:#008851|Ipswich & Rosewood

|Bowen Hills, Caboolture & Nambour

|Morning peak only[{{Translink stop|600362/timetable}} Rosewood Platform 1] TransLink

Ipswich

|

rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|2

|rowspan="1" style=background:#008851|Ipswich & Rosewood

|Kippa-Ring

|Afternoon peak only[{{Translink stop|600363/timetable}} Rosewood Platform 2] TransLink

style=background:#E31836|Queensland Rail Travel

|Brisbane Roma Street & Charleville

|

Transport Links

Bus Queensland Lockyer Valley operate one bus route to and from Rosewood station:

  • 539: to Helidon{{Queensland Timetables|539}}

This route was once serviced by McCafferty's Express Coaches (now operating under the auspices of Greyhound Australia) which continued onto Toowoomba where it connected with Rail motor service 5R16 from Toowoomba to Roma which operated until 1993.

References

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