Any idea where this might be?

[ozbob]

https://researchdata.ands.org.au/john-douglas-kerr-history-database/1326079

John Douglas Kerr and Ruth Sadie Kerr History Database
The University of Queensland

Full description
The database comprises history notes on railways, sugar, mining local history of Queensland. It includes notes from government and private archival records which were on open access to the researcher at the time; newspapers; Government Gazettes; Parliamentary Papers; Railway Public and Working Time Tables; industry journals; minutes of shire councils and ceased companies; oral interviews; diaries in libraries; magazines; notes on photographs etc.

Access > https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:381888

[ozbob]

The state library qld have informed me the photo of  the Gov and the Studebaker motor was a post card from Eagle Heights. Eagle Heights is in the Tamborine area. I have downloaded John Kerr's database. Will see if I can dig up info on Tamborine / Boyland. The library also sent a link to another article https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/213146257
We might be close ☺

The shed in the photograph is a cream shed. Both Tamborine and Boyland had cream sheds. SLQ think it is on the Canungra branch.

😀

🏋

[ozbob]

Had a look at JK Database. Following of relevance?

1915: Boyland Accommodation - loop siding, goods shed, rail level platform, combined shelter shed and office, gatekeeper in charge, pig yards (WN 367,JA) [24 June]
1916: Boyland - Gate, siding, HC loading bank (GA)
1925: Boyland - Gate, siding, 20cwt scales, cattle pig sheep yards, loading bank for timber (GA)
1935: Boyland - Gate, siding, 20cwt scales, CPS yards, shelter goods and cream sheds (GA)
1940: the station buildings Boyland have been removed (WN 19/40)
1950: Boyland - siding, 20cwt scales [error?], CPS yards, cream shed (GA)

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1916: Tambourine - Gate, siding, cattle pig sheep yards, HC loading bank (GA)
1925: Tambourine - Gate, siding, 20cwt scales, CPS yards, HC loading bank(GA)
1926: the spelling of Tambourine station has been altered to Tamborine (WN 15/26 p4, 15 Apr)
1935: Tamborine - Gate, siding, 20cwt scales, CPS yards, end loading bank, shelter, goods and cream sheds (GA)
1950: Tamborine - Gate, siding, railway phone, 2cwt scales, cattle pig sheep yards, end loading bank, shelter, cream and goods sheds (GA)
1926-55: Tamborine recorded with passenger,s 1930-655, 1940-53, 1944-1885, 1950-19, 1955-30 (CR)

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Boyland ?  Our mystery station has a shelter and office.

[ozbob]

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/213146257

From the article Daily Mail (Brisbane) Mon 19 June 1922 page 7:




Tambourine (as it was known then).

The article.  In part " Taking the branch line at Bethania Junction, the rail motor, by which his Excellency travelled stopped first at Logan Village, the historic little township that marks the junction of the Beaudesert and Canungra railways."  ... (details of speech local meetings) ... " About noon the Vic-Regal party reached comfortable little Tambourine, which was gaily beflagged for the unique occasion ... "

In the photograph flags can be noted at the station.  Putting together all the information I am now fairly confident that the location is Tambourine station.  (Tambourine was renamed Tamborine in 1926).  Checking with John Kerr's database, Tamborine had a cream shed.

[ozbob]

" The Tamborine Village's Railway Station site is just east of the 1966 opened St Patrick's Catholic Church on the northern corner of the Beaudesert-Beenleigh Rd and Waterford-Tamborine Rd junction.  "

https://www.railpage.com.au/f-t11378165.htm

https://www.google.com/maps/@-27.8800419,153.1294087,716m/data=!3m1!1e3

Topography fits.

[ozbob]

Very certain now that the location is Tambourine station.    Tambourine was renamed Tamborine in 1926.

The information provided by the State Library of Queensland has allowed final confirmation.

After Tambourine he went on to Canungra.

[ozbob]

Station is the correct orientation for Tambourine

Tambourine Queensland / prepared by Australian Section Imperial General Staff
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Australian Section
[ Government publication, Map : 1926 ]
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-337985292/view

[ozbob]

Eureka Eureka  !!

The Daily Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1903 - 1926)  Sat 24 Jun 1922  Page 12
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/213153964

[ozbob]

https://twitter.com/ozbob13/status/1183889183619743747

[red dragin]

Well done OzBob 

QImagery isn't high enough resolution unfortunately to get a decent aerial view, but you can make out what appears to be the two buildings north east of the road intersection.

[ozbob]

Thanks.  Great to be able to confirm the location.  This has been a mystery for some time.

One of the issues I think of searching Trove and the like was that it was not realised that Tamborine was Tambourine prior to 1926.

My Grandfather did a rail trip to Canungra in the early 1950s.  My uncle who was with him remembers it well. 

They were travelling at the back of the train on a platform, a very quintessential QGR country branch line.

Canungra 1918  http://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/f/fhnkog/slq_digitool1320974

[#Metro]

Must have been quite a gradient to get up the mountain.

[red dragin]

Must have been quite a gradient to get up the mountain.

Tamborine is a township to the north of the mountain on the lower ground. The railway went around the mountain to Canungra.

[SurfRail]

The Bearded Dragon pub is in the vicinity these days.  Well worth a visit for the food (best lamb cutlets I've ever had served to me), plus stuff for the kids if you have any.

[ozbob]

The Bearded Dragon pub is in the vicinity these days.  Well worth a visit for the food (best lamb cutlets I've ever had served to me), plus stuff for the kids if you have any.

> http://www.beardeddragon.com.au 

[ozbob]

SLQ have updated the description of the photograph.

https://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/133858

'Sir Matthew Nathan arriving by rail motor at Tamborine station on the Canungra line, 1922'

[ozbob]

Facebook ..

[ozbob]

Congratulations on finding the location of the station. Thank you for the extra information, we will add the location and the name of the rail motor to the photograph's record on our One Search catalogue.

— State Library of Qld (@slqld) October 15, 2019

[Stillwater]

Can we have another photo, please.

[ozbob]

Sure ... 



Governor Nathan on a visit to the Great Barrier Reef in 1923 (courtesy of the State Library of Queensland)

[ozbob]

Official opening of the Coolum Beach Tramway by Sir Matthew Nathan, 1923

https://sunshinecoast.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/PIC/BIBENQ?IRN=162242&FMT=PA

[red dragin]

Could you imagine what Sir Nathan would be like it today's world with Instagram!

[Stillwater]

He would have more selfies posted than Mark Bailey MP

[ozbob]

 

From the readings I did chasing down Tambourine, the thing that stood out was the genuine affection the citizens of Queensland had for the Governor.  He was a prolific tourer, there a lot of photographs of him out and about.   He was at Buderim and opened the school of arts there, no doubt he had ride on the tramway too  .  He had a military background (LT COL) and was very well travelled in a number of colonial governship roles. 



Sir Matthew Nathan visiting Mundubbera, ca. 1924

https://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/105454

Governor Sir Matthew Nathan became to be highly regarded by Queenslanders during his term from 1920-25.

This ' farewell ' was published in the Beaudesert Times 28 Aug 1925. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/216854210

[ozbob]