What's so special about Petrie Station?

[BribieG]

Something that has been puzzling me for years. "The next train to arrive on Platform 6 will be the Caboolture train stopping at all stations and Petrie....."
Approaching Petrie from both directions you get the "special" recorded announcement along the lines of "QR reminds all passengers to ensure they have all their belongings ....".
Can anyone tell me why Petrie, alone, is the golden station on the Caboolture Line? It seems to be a bog standard station with no particular "junction" function - I'm wondering if its elevated status is some weird fossil or enduring racial memory from the days when the commuter line ended there, elevating it to some sort of folklore status like Timbuktu or Rivendell?

[ozbob]

Probably historical. Petrie has always been a significant station, and soon to be a junction station.  Often the terminus for earlier passenger trains and some still.  Had a turntable and sidings for the paper mill.  Coal trains ran there from Rosewood to the mill once.  Crew were based there and has long been a stabling location.  Petrie reminds me of being sort of similar to Darra. Darra has a fascinating history as well with the cement works and even had stock yards once.  There was regular shunt trains at Darra as there would have been at Petrie.  Darra has now risen to the glorious heights of being a junction station, a fate that awaits Petrie ... 

[BrizCommuter]

Petrie is also the 2nd busiest suburban station on the QR CityTrain network.

[O_128]

I guess its the same as manly, shame the update took so long and it still looks crap

[somebody]

And bus connections to the Redcliffe Peninsula.

[HappyTrainGuy]

Yeah, there are alot of bus connections via Petrie to Murrumba Downs, North Lakes, Redcliffe/Kippa Ring, Deception Bay (IIRC it links up with Caboolture/Morayfield), Strathpine, City and people that live in the Redcliffe area drive to the station aswell hence its very high patronage. There's also schools in the area that use the station ie in the arvo you got all the kids from Bray Park getting off at Petrie and kids from Petrie schools getting on along with a few school busses using the station too.

[SteelPan]

I briefly stood on the station platform back '89.