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English: On 30 November 1940 the Country Station was opened at Roma Street. This low lying face brick building sat directly between the 1873-5 building and Roma Street. For the first time the early railway station was flanked by platforms and was no longer able to be accessed via Roma Street directly. The new passenger station was designed to relieve congestion at Brisbane Central Station and made Roma Street Station the chief station for long distance travel. Trains travelling, southward however, still left from South Brisbane prior to the construction of the Merivale Bridge in 1978. The 1940 station was planned amid a large garden setting some of which survives to this day and continued a tradition of substantial and attractive gardens surrounding railway stations in Queensland.

During the 1980s the isolation of the original station building was further increased with the construction of the monolithic Travelodge centre which incorporated new railway facilities along with a hotel, offices and function centre. This development saw the demolition of the 1940 railway station.

Description source: Queensland Heritage Register

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Item ID435761, Photographic material