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About Archer Park Railway Museum

Archer Park Railway Museum is a history-listed former railway station and now delivery museum at Denison Street, Rockhampton, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It become built from 1897 to 1908. It changed into known as Archer Park railway station and Rockhampton Central railway station. It became brought to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. The Museum's predominant enchantment is a rare French Purrey steam tram reconstructed the use of elements from the unique fleet of steam trams operated by Rockhampton City Council among 1909 and 1939.

Archer Park Railway Station, the previous Rockhampton Central Railway Station, is situated on Denison Street and forms an vital hyperlink with the social, cultural and delivery history of Rockhampton and Central Queensland. It became the principal railway station in Rockhampton from the turn of the century until the mid 1920s, and is an essential detail in the improvement of the railway community in Queensland, and the increase of the North Coast Railway inside the early part of the 20th century. The Archer brothers had made a private day trip to the Rockhampton district in 1853, and have been the first Europeans to report and chart the Fitzroy River. The Archers have been additionally the first European pastoralists to reach in the area. Their established order of Gracemere Station led to in addition pastoral expansion into the region.

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