Download coordinates as: Woolloongabba (/wʊlənˈɡæbə/ wuu-lən-GAB-ə) is an inner southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

[1] Woolloongabba is located 3.0 kilometres (1.9 mi) by road south of the Brisbane GPO.

Between 1884 and 1969, the main railway locomotive depot for lines south of the Brisbane River was beside Stanley St.

By the 1960s, services from the depot were causing significant delays to traffic as they crossed these three major roads.

The Woolloongabba Fiveways (the intersection of Stanley Street, Main Street, Logan Road and Ipswich Road) was a complex junction with tram and railway lines, and tram and trolleybus overhead.

Trams were controlled by a signalman, who operated the points (or switches) from a signal cabin near the eastern side of the junction.

[14] On 1 February 1893, the Brisbane Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, Deaf & Dumb was established on a 10-acre (4.0 ha) site in Cornwall Street.

It was later renamed Narbethong State Special School and moved to its current site in Salisbury Street in 1969.

[15][17] On Saturday 12 October 1895, the foundation stone was laid for the Nazareth Lutheran Church in Hawthorne Road by Henry Norman, the Governor of Queensland.

It consisted of approximately 300 allotments, subdivisions of Portion 85, which was bordered by Ipswich Road, Victoria Terrace and Juliette Street.

[25] It consisted of approximately 70 allotments, and the land for sale is resubdivisions of subdivision 1 of portion 171, Parish of South Brisbane.

[26] From 1927 until 1969, the largest of the Brisbane City Council's tram depots was on Ipswich Road between Cornwall Street and Tottenham Street (27°30′02″S 153°02′09″E / 27.5005°S 153.0358°E / -27.5005; 153.0358 (Woolloongabba Tram Depot)), opposite the Princess Alexandra Hospital, now the site of the Buranda Village shopping centre.

[citation needed] On Sunday 20 December 1936, Archbishop James Duhig laid the foundation stone for St Luke the Evangelist's Catholic Church on the site of the Barco Villa at Buranda (as that area was then known).

[28] On Sunday 11 April 1937 the Apostolic Delegate in Australia, Giovanni Panico, officially opened the new church in the presence of thousands of people.

The church was severely damaged in a hail storm in November 2014 and was officially closed on 28 December 2014.

It was dedicated to the memory of George Coxon and his wife Mary who bequeathed two blocks of land and £2000 to the Church which they had established in 1924 following a split with another spiritualist church, after which they met in a building made of galvanised iron in Buranda.

[37] In early 1942, the first Coca-Cola bottling plant in Australia was built in Woolloongabba at 36-39 Balaclava Street.

[38] It was originally designed to supply the demands of the newly arrived US military personnel, but later expanded production to the local Australian market.

[citation needed] On Sunday 20 June 1948, Archbishop James Duhig laid the foundation stone for St Luke's Catholic Primary School.

[39] On Sunday 23 January 1949, Duhig officially opened and blessed the new school designed for 200 students.

[40] The school was located on the O'Keefe Street side of the church and was operated by the Presentation Sisters.

The next most common countries of birth were China 3.8%, New Zealand 3.5%, England 2.7%, South Korea 2.7% and India 2.5%.