26-696: The Royal Queensland Golf Club is a golf club and course at the end of Curtin West Avenue, Eagle Farm , Brisbane , Queensland , Australia. Located beside the Brisbane River is a 10-minute drive from the Brisbane CBD . It has hosted the Australian Open three times: in 1947, 1966, and 1973. The Royal Queensland Golf Club was founded in 1920, initially as the Queensland Golf Club. The original course
52-616: A $ 40 million Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Centre (RAMC) began in October 2023. Doomben railway line The Doomben railway line is a railway line in the City of Brisbane , Queensland , Australia. It is the part of the Pinkenba railway line that still operates a regular passenger service. Doomben , or dumben , is the Indigenous Yuggera name for a tree fern which was prolific in
78-694: A prison for twice convicted female felons until transportation ended in 1839. Conditions for the females at the prison were documented by the Quaker missionary James Backhouse in 1836. In the 1850s, Aboriginal people set up camps in the Breakfast Creek Eagle Farm area, including groups of the Bribie Island , Ningy-Ningy ( Toorbul Point to Redcliffe ) and Wide Bay Aboriginal peoples, who were losing their traditional territory further north. Eagle Farm State School opened on 1 August 1864. In 1908,
104-552: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Eagle Farm, Queensland Download coordinates as: Eagle Farm is an eastern industrial suburb of the City of Brisbane , Queensland , Australia. In the 2021 census , Eagle Farm had a population of 11 people. The neighbourhood of Whinstanes is located in Eagle Farm ( 27°26′00″S 153°05′00″E / 27.4333°S 153.0833°E / -27.4333; 153.0833 ( Whinstanes ) ). Eagle Farm
130-498: Is an industrial estate with Western Avenue passing through it with no sign of Birdwood and Monash Streets. The Eagle Farm Airport served as Brisbane's main airport until the opening of the present Brisbane Airport in 1988. During WWII U.S. Navy Seabees of the 55th CB built Camp Seabee adjacent to Australian CCC Camp by the Airport as a staging centre for Construction Battalions assigned to MacArthur 's 7th Amphibious force . It
156-691: Is located in neighbouring Ascot. Eagle Farm first appeared as a name in 1839, identifying a cultivation area in the Moreton Bay penal settlement . In 1829, Captain Patrick Logan chose this well-watered, fertile site between the Brisbane River and Serpentine Creek to farm mostly maize, pigs and cattle. The origin of the name apparently arose from eagles being observed around the farm. By 1834, women prisoners were working as field labour at Eagle Farm. By 1836, forty female prisoners were housed there, washing and mending clothes, growing vegetables. The site remained
182-450: Is situated 8.5 kilometres (5.3 mi) north-east of the Brisbane central business district . It is bounded to the south by the median of the Brisbane River . Eagle Farm is within the industrial-development zone known as Australia TradeCoast . Kingsford Smith Drive passes through the suburb from west ( Hamilton ) to east ( Pinkenba ). The Gateway Motorway passes through the suburb from
208-533: The Airportlink tunnel with a depot on the site of the former Toombul Shopping Centre . All services stop at all stations to Roma Street railway station . The typical travel time between Doomben and Brisbane City is approximately 18 minutes (to Central ). Doomben line services typically terminate at Roma Street or Park Road , while some peak services continue to Kuraby or Cleveland . No rail services operate on Sundays or public holidays. Passengers for/from
234-542: The Eagle Farm racecourse , though nearby residents successfully lobbied for a regular passenger service. The line was extended 5.8 kilometres (3.6 mi) to Pinkenba railway station in 1897, mainly to serve an industrial area, including wharves on the north side of the Brisbane River . The passenger service was timed to coincide with the starting and finishing times of the workers. During World War I and World War II , with deep berthing available to ships at Pinkenba on
260-592: The Holden Breakfast Creek facility. Many of the workers in the Holden facility were women. = The nearest government primary school is in neighbouring Hamilton . = The nearest government secondary school is Aviation State High School in neighbouring Hendra . = Gateway College opened in 1966. It is now known as TAFE Queensland SkillsTech , featuring trade courses such as electrical, plumbing, glass and glazing, renewable energy and electronics. Construction of
286-542: The Queensland Government decided to build a second Gateway Bridge over the Brisbane River, which impacted on the original course. The new Royal Queensland layout was designed by Mike Clayton . The course is on the northern bank of the Brisbane River . The course is flat with the front 9 working around the grounds in a clockwise fashion and the back 9 inside the front 9. The Gateway Motorway passes alongside
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#1732859067613312-453: The ABCD and Ordnance depot. In the 2011 census , Eagle Farm had "no people or a very low population" . In the 2016 census , Eagle Farm had "no people or a very low population". In the 2021 census , Eagle Farm had a population of 11 people. Eagle Farm has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: The Allison Engine Testing Stands site is part of Brisbane's TradeCoast Central at
338-539: The area. The railway line branches from the North Coast line at Eagle Junction , extending 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the industrial suburb of Pinkenba , situated on the northern bank at the mouth of the Brisbane River . It is part of the Queensland Rail Citytrain network . The initial 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) section of the line opened on 3 September 1882 to Ascot (then named Racecourse) to serve
364-497: The closing or suspending of under-utilised or unprofitable rail lines. Only a few special services were run on the line on days of major race events at adjoining race tracks. Electric passenger services resumed on 27 January 1998, but only as far as Doomben, with bus connections to the stations beyond Doomben. The Doomben to Pinkenba section is used only for freight and occasional special trains, such as heritage services described below. QR occasionally run special steam trains on
390-485: The eastern boundary. The Royal Queensland Golf Club has an extensive global and domestic club list. Clubs include The Australian , Hong Kong , New South Wales , Royal Adelaide , Royal Melbourne and Royal Sydney . The winners of these three Australian Open's are: Adam Scott is a current member of the club. 27°26′29″S 153°05′33″E / 27.44130°S 153.09246°E / -27.44130; 153.09246 This golf club or course-related article
416-572: The entire Pinkenba line as part of their semi-regular "Steam Train Sunday" excursion service. This is the only way to travel on the full length of the line. Future As part of an announcement to expand Brisbane Metro , in August 2024, it was confirmed that a conversion of the Doomben line to Busway for a Metro to Brisbane Airport was one of the two shortlisted routes, the other being a more direct alignment via
442-613: The following stations are now abandoned. On 24 April 1920, auctioneer Thorpe and Sharp offered 87 "park like" suburban allotments in the Whinstanes Junction Estate to the north-east of the Whinstanes railway station (no longer extant). The estate was bounded by Lamington Avenue to the south and the Doomben Racecourse to the north with allotments facing two streets Birdwood Street and Monash Streets. As at 2019, this area
468-562: The mouth of the Brisbane River , troops camped in the Pinkenba and Meeandah localities. Passenger ships used the Pinkenba Wharf , and special trains ran from Brisbane to Pinkenba. Earthworks were undertaken to duplicate the line in the 1950s, hence the double sided, island platform at Clayfield . including regrading the line which eliminated the Sandgate Rd level crossing, but the program
494-586: The north of Kingsford Smith Drive. There are no railway stations within the suburb any more. The Royal Queensland Golf Club is located at 431 Curtin West Avenue and extends south to the river. Apart from the golf course, the suburb is industrial. Despite the name, the Eagle Farm Racecourse , home of the Queensland Turf Club (QTC) and the main racecourse for thoroughbred gallopers in Brisbane,
520-493: The old Brisbane airport site in the suburb of Eagle Farm, where new and rebuilt World War II Allison V-12 in-line liquid cooled aero engines were tested in the open air prior to fitting into reassembled aircraft, notably the P38-Lightning , Curtis Kittyhawk and Bell Airacobra . The masonry sections of the remains, being buildings and dividers between the engine testing bays, are largely intact. The engines were refurbished at
546-692: The school was renamed Hendra State School. In October 1895, the Queensland Government approved the extension of the Racecourse railway which terminated at Racecourse railway station (now Ascot railway station ) through Eagle Farm to Pinkenba to provide access to the Pinkenba Wharf on the Brisbane River . This created a number of new railway stations: Doomben , Whinstanes , Baraini (later renamed Airport to service Eagle Farm Airport , then later renamed Eagle Farm ), Bunour , Meeandah and Pinkenba . The line opened to Meeandah on 31 March 1897, but
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#1732859067613572-424: The section to Pinkenba was below the high tide level and had to be reclaimed using sand dredged to construct a railway wharf on the river. The line opened to Pinkenba on 1 September 1897. In 1976, a new Whinstanes-Doomben railway station was created between the original two stations to replace them, and was renamed simply Doomben railway station in the 1990s. From 27 January 1998, the line terminated at this station and
598-527: The south ( Murarrie ) crossing the Brisbane River via the Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges and then exits to the north ( Brisbane Airport ). The Southern Cross Way splits from the Gateway Motorway and also heads north-west, becoming the north-western boundary of Eagle Farm with Hamilton. The Doomben/Pinkenba railway line passes through the suburbs from west ( Ascot /Hamilton) to east (Pinkenba) to
624-453: Was abandoned before the second track was laid. The line was electrified in 1988, but only to Eagle Farm , the next station after current suburban terminus Doomben ; only diesel-hauled services could travel the full length of the line, and those were infrequent. All passenger services on the line were suspended in September 1993 as part of a statewide rationalisation of the rail network with
650-702: Was designed by Carnegie Clark , the Australian Open Champion, and was opened by the Governor-General Lord Forster in 1921. King George V gave the club its Royal Charter in 1921; the King's official letter of notification to the Governor of Queensland was signed by Winston Churchill (then British Secretary of State). Construction of the new Championship course was completed in December 2007. In 2005,
676-558: Was the smallest of the military installations at Eagle farm. They also built an adjoining Advance Base Construction Depot (ABCD) and the USN Ordnance depot at Mt. Coot-Tha. CBs that were there were the 19th, 55th, 60th, 77th, 84th, 91st, 104th and the CBMU 564. The base operated from March 1943 until mid October 1945. The Royal navy moved into Camp Seabee and the Australian Army took over
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