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Roma is a rural town and locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. [3] [4] It is the administrative centre of the Maranoa Region.The town was incorporated in 1867 and is named after Lady Diamantina Bowen (née di Roma), the wife of Sir George Bowen, the Governor of Queensland at the time.
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Front page of The Western Star and Roma Advertiser, 23 October 1875. The Western Star and Roma Advertiser, later published as the Western Star, is one of the longest continuously published newspapers [1] in outback Queensland. It was published in Roma from 27 March 1875 to 1948, [2] before continuing as the Western Star from 1948 to the present ...
The extension of the Western railway line to Roma and on to Charleville in the 1880s, linking western Queensland to the coastal ports, combined with the tapping of the vast Great Artesian Basin in the late 1880s and early 1890s, stimulated regional development. By the early 1900s Roma was a substantial town serving a wide and prosperous ...
The Borough of Roma was established in 1867. [2]On 31 March 1903, under the Local Authorities Act (1902), the Borough of Roma became the Town of Roma. [2]In July 2007, the Local Government Reform Commission released a report recommending a number of amalgamations of local government areas in Queensland.
The 1873 Roma Street railway station is a substantial building constructed of rendered masonry situated between the new Roma Street railway station within the Travelodge (Centra) tower on Roma Street and the platform structures to the rear of this. The building retains some c. 1940 s platform awnings and is adjacent to early remnant garden ...
The town of Roma was established officially in 1862 to service the Maranoa pastoral district, and as a government administrative centre. With the extension of the Western railway line to Roma and Charleville in the 1880s, linking Western Queensland to the coastal ports, Roma boomed, and emerged as an important regional centre. Roma was ...
Opened in 1986, the Brisbane Transit Centre was between the Queensland Police Service headquarters and the Roma Street Parkland. The complex included a number of shops, cafes and restaurants, and two office towers. [3] It also included the Travelodge Hotel which was positioned above the station, which opened in 1986. [4]