South Coast railway line, Queensland

South Coast Line
Train at Tweed Heads in 1940
Overview
OwnerQueensland Railways
Service
Operator(s)Queensland Railways
History
Opened25 January 1889 (to Southport)
10 August 1903 (to Tweed Heads)
Closed1 July 1961 (to Tweed Heads)
30 June 1964 (to Southport)
Technical
Line length73 kilometres
Track gauge3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Route map

showing distance (miles and chains)
from South Brisbane
0 mi 0 ch
0 km
24 mi 15 ch
38.93 km
26 mi 61 ch
43.07 km
Stapylton
31 mi 16 ch
50.21 km
Ormeau
33 mi 79 ch
54.7 km
Pimpana
Pimpana Creek
38 mi 35 ch
61.86 km
Coomera
39 mi 35 ch
63.47 km
Saltwater Creek
40 mi 56 ch
65.5 km
Helensvale
Coombabah Creek
44 mi 54 ch
71.9 km
Coombabah
46 mi 40 ch
74.83 km
50 mi 10 ch
80.67 km
48 mi
77 km
49 mi 11 ch
79.08 km
Nerang
53 mi 54 ch
86.38 km
Worongary
55 mi 33 ch
89.18 km
Mudgeeraba
61 mi
98 km
62 mi 70 ch
101.19 km
Elanora
63 mi 79 ch
102.98 km
Currumbin
67 mi 16 ch
108.15 km
Bilinga
65 mi 46 ch
105.53 km
68 mi 4 ch
109.52 km
Kirra
69 mi 7 ch
111.19 km
Turning wye
69 mi 33 ch
111.71 km

The South Coast railway line (also known as the Tweed railway line) was a railway from Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, Australia. The route via the South Coast (now known as the Gold Coast) to Tweed Heads on the border of Queensland and New South Wales. The line operated from 1889 to 1964. Between 1903 and 1961 steam trains ran from Beenleigh to the NSW border. The Gold Coast railway line re-opened in 1996 along a modified alignment in the north and a new route south but does not extend as far south yet as the South Coast line.