Proserpine railway station

Proserpine railway station is located on the North Coast line in Queensland, Australia.

The agreement worked out between the two councils of Bowen and Proserpine, was to have a shared responsibility to build and operate the tramway.

However, the Government chose not to enter the argument, and the railway between Don (which was a mile from Bowen) and Proserpine opened to traffic on 11 July 1910.

There was an official opening of sorts on 2 July 1910, when the Governor of Queensland, Sir William MacGregor was visiting the Proserpine Show.

It was a reasonably rustic railway that greeted the ratepayers of the Bowen Proserpine Joint Tramway Board in 1909.

A small ‘Mogul’ (2-6-0 wheel arrangement), built by the Baldwin locomotive company of Philadelphia had arrived in Queensland in 1879.