Stopping Places and Named Features
Most of the historical stopping places and named locations of the original railway line have been kept. The following list is made for the journey from Queenstown, and can be read in reverse for the trip from Regatta Point.
- Queenstown (terminus)
- crosses the Queen River
- Lynchford
- Halls Creek
- Rinadeena
- enters the western end of the King River gorge
- Dubbil Barril ("double barrel")
- "Quarter Mile Bridge" (original destroyed by floods in 1974, reconstruction much shorter)
- crosses the King River for the first time
- Teepookana
- "Steel Bridge"
- crosses the King River for the second time
- line closest to the King River between these points
- leaves the King River near its entry into Macquarie Harbour and moves north towards Regatta Point and Strahan
- Lowana
- Regatta Point (terminus)
The current owners and operators of the Railway are the Federal Hotels group which also owns and operates other tourist operations in Strahan.
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