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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

‘Cycling tourism is the next big thing’: the long journey to restore a central Queensland rail trail

Cycle tourists on the Boyne Burnett Inland Valley Rail Trail
Cycle tourists on the Boyne Burnett Inland Valley Rail Trail which, if fully completed, would become the longest in the southern hemisphere and run 271km from Gladstone in central Queensland to Gayndah. Photograph: Joe Hinchliffe/The Guardian

The ghost station of Many Peaks is enclosed in a jumble of rocky and timbered hills. There is not much else to Littlemore now than a farmhouse and a sign.

These sleepy and forgotten places in the Boyne Valley of central Queensland were once linked by hundreds of kilometres of train lines that swept an inland arc between the ports of Maryborough and Gladstone. Now, sections of those tracks are being gradually retrofitted for slower forms of transport: the foot, the horse and the bicycle.

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