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The Port Alma railway line was a 26-kilometre (16 mi) branch railway from Bajool railway station on the North Coast railway line to the port at Port Alma. It opened in 1912 to provide access to the port from Rockhampton. The last 10 km of the line closed in 1986, with the remainder serving a salt works until closure in 1990.
Bajool is the site of one of four Queensland Government explosives reserves (also known as "magazines"). The magazine is about 29 kilometres (18 mi) by road from the shipping wharf at Port Alma. [34] From 1912 to 1986 a rail line ran from Bajool to Port Alma. [35]
Its purpose was to mark the east side of the entrance to Keppel Bay, [2] on passage to Fitzroy River and Port Alma. [1] The first lighthouse at the locations was constructed in 1873 or 1876, moved in the 1920s, and is now on display at the Gladstone Maritime Museum. A second lighthouse was constructed in 1895 and its state is unclear. [2]
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As the ship revised its itinerary, the 2,781 passengers had to stay onboard “on this crummy cruise to nowhere,” one passenger wrote on a Facebook page for the cruise.
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