Pine Hill is a former rural locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia.
However, the newspaper of the day speculated that the land might be worthless in two years, presumably in the expectation that Pine Hill would not remain the terminus.
[11] The railway line opened on 1 November 1883,[12] and the Queensland National Bank relocated their business there from Bogantungan, the previous terminus, in the same month.
[13] The town was described unfavourably in a newspaper article of December 1883:[14]"There is dust everywhere, not only in the streets but in the houses.
It sometimes almost blinds you, and it will no doubt assist in producing premature deafness in some cases, for your ears get filled with dust and thus all the five senses are affected ... it ought to have been named The Dust Flat".On 22 September 1884 the railway line had reached its new terminus of Alpha, and Pine Hill was described as "unsuited for permanent settlement", which led to criticism of the Queensland Government for profiting from land sales in short-lived terminus towns like Pine Hill.
The town's streets and allotments had been laid out in the area immediately to the south of the railway station and can still be seen on maps, but there is no evidence remaining of any building.