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Bowen Hills
Northbound view from Platform 2, July 2012
General information
Location	Abbotsford Road, Bowen Hills
Coordinates	27°26′43″S 153°02′15″E / 27.4454°S 153.0376°E / -27.4454; 153.0376
Owned by	Queensland Rail
Operated by	Queensland Rail
Line(s)	North Coast Ferny Grove
Distance	2.66 kilometres from Central
Platforms	4 (2 islands)
Construction
Structure type	Ground
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Status	Staffed
Station code	600005 (platform 1) 600000 (platform 2) 600002 (platform 3) 600007 (platform 4)
Fare zone	go card 1
Website	Queensland Rail
History
Opened	1973; 51 years ago (1973)
Electrified	Yes
Passengers
2022-23	560,687 (annual)
Rank	7
Services
Preceding station Queensland Rail Following station Fortitude Valleytowards Roma Street Airport Line Albiontowards Domestic Airport through to Ferny Grove Line Beenleigh Line Fortitude Valleytowards Beenleigh Fortitude Valleytowards Roma Street Caboolture Line Eagle Junctiontowards Caboolture through to Shorncliffe Line Cleveland Line Fortitude Valleytowards Cleveland Fortitude Valleytowards Roma Street Doomben Line Albiontowards Doomben Centraltowards Roma Street Ferny Grove Line Windsortowards Ferny Grove through to Airport Line Gold Coast Line Fortitude Valleytowards Varsity Lakes through to Caboolture Line Ipswich & Rosewood Line Fortitude Valleytowards Ipswich or Rosewood through to Sunshine Coast Line Fortitude Valleytowards Roma Street Redcliffe Peninsula Line Eagle Junctiontowards Kippa-Ring Shorncliffe Line Albiontowards Shorncliffe through to Redcliffe Peninsula Line Springfield Line Fortitude Valleytowards Springfield Central Fortitude Valleytowards Roma Street Sunshine Coast Line Eagle Junctiontowards Nambour Sunshine Coast LineGympie North service Northgatetowards Gympie North

Bowen Hills railway station is located on the North Coast line in Queensland, Australia. It serves the Brisbane suburb of Bowen Hills. North of the station, the Ferny Grove line branches off. The station is one of four inner city stations that form a core corridor through the centre of Brisbane.

History

There have been three railways stations named Bowen Hills. The first from 1882 to 1889 was near Campbell Street. In 1890, a new station opened at the south end of the Abbotsford Road tunnel. In 1971, to allow for the Mayne marshalling yards to be expanded, Bowen Hill and Mayne Junction stations were closed with a new Bowen Hills station opening in 1973.

As part of the quadruplication of the line from Roma Street station, Platforms 3 and 4 opened on 11 June 1996.

Accidents

In October 1904, Archibald Kerr, a 16-year-old boy, fell from a moving train near Bowen Hills station; the boy died from the injury to the back of his head caused by the fall. At the time, the train driver was not aware of the event until he was told about it by the signalman on the train's return journey at Brunswick Street station. The train gate was blamed as the cause of the accident at first, but after the gate was found to be in working order, the cause of the accident wasn't known.

Services

Bowen Hills station is served by Airport, Beenleigh, Caboolture, Doomben, Ferny Grove, Redcliffe Peninsula, Shorncliffe, Springfield and Sunshine Coast line services. Also see Inner City timetable It is adjacent to the Mayne Stabling Yards, with many services terminating here.

Services by platform

References

1. "Cross River Rail Business Case August 2017" (PDF). Government of Queensland. p. 54. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
2. Bowen Hills & Mayne Centre for Queensland Government
3. "Roma Street – Bowen Hills Quadruplication Update" Railway Digest March 1995 page 14
4. "Inner City Rail Expansion" Railway Digest July 1995 page 17
5. "Additional City Tunnels & Track Commissioned" Railway Digest July 1996 page 17
6. "Bowen Hills Railway Fatality". The Brisbane Courier. 18 October 1904. p. 4. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
7. "Airport/Gold Coast Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
8. "Beenleigh Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
9. "Caboolture Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
10. "Doomben Line timetable". TransLink. 2 March 2020.
11. "Ferny Grove Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
12. "Redcliffe Peninsula Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
13. "Shorncliffe Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
14. "Sunshine Coast Line timetable". Translink. 2 March 2020.
15. "Inner City timetable" (PDF). Translink. 2 March 2020.
16. South East Queensland Stabling Program Department of Transport & Main Roads
17. ^ Bowen Hills Platform 1 TransLink
18. ^ Bowen Hills Platform 2 TransLink
19. ^ Bowen Hills Platform 3 TransLink
20. ^ Bowen Hills Platform 4 TransLink

External links

• Media related to Bowen Hills railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Bowen Hills station Queensland Rail
• Bowen Hills station Queensland's Railways on the Internet

• Bowen Hills, Queensland
• Railway stations in Brisbane
• Railway stations in Australia opened in 1973
• North Coast railway line, Queensland