Bogantungan is a rural town in the locality of Willows in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia.

[1] The Central Western railway was built in sections, beginning at Rockhampton and then heading west.

Each section involved establishing a temporary settlement to accommodate the workers while they were building the railway.

Although intended as temporary, some of these settlements continued to survive after the railway workers had moved on, becoming permanent towns.

[8][9] On 26 February 1960, Bogantungan was the site of the Medway Creek rail disaster, one of Queensland's worst train accidents.

The Midlander passenger train, heading east to Rockhampton, passed over the flooded Medway Creek, just west of the town.