Flat wagons set up as a temporary bridge between Milton and Toowong, c1900

Flat wagons set up as a temporary bridge between Milton and Toowong, c1900. Passengers from a train and local residents could walk across these wagons and planks to connect with a train waiting on the other side. There are passengers on the far bank ready to make the crossing. QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

The Townsville Mail through floodwaters on the Burdekin Bridge, 1936

The Townsville Mail ploughs through floodwaters covering the rails on the Burdekin River Bridge on the 21 March 1936. Passengers in the coaches lean out of the windows to get a good view. QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

Droughts and floods and rail

Survival in Queensland during climatic extremes has often relied on the rail network.

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Emergency Civil Defence Services, Townsville after Cyclone Althea, 1972

Headquarters and signals room of Emergency Civil Defence Services, Green Street, West End (Townsville), set up in 1972 after Cyclone Althea struck in December 1971. Slides by Lynne Clancy, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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