QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA
Features
Grounds are open every day -
dawn to dusk
Train
Train rides from the Toowoomba Railway Station to Spring Bluff daily during Carnival of Flowers week.
Full details are available: Click here.
Cafe Details:
Cafe open 9.30am-4.30pm Friday-Sunday and public holidays.
Cafe open every day in September.
Group bookings by appointment.
25th
Battalion and Spring Bluff
On St Patrick’s Day, 1942 the Darling Downs 25th Battalion left
Cabarlah barracks at 2am and marched down the steep Range to the
siding at Spring Bluff Railway Station.
The soldiers boarded trains bound for the Brisbane Exhibition Grounds, Townsville and eventually Milne Bay.
More than 200 did not return from battles with Japanese forces at Milne Bay in 1942 and Bougainville in 1945.
A
memorial plaque is located on the Station and the Trust hold a
commemoration ceremony for the veterans each year on St
Patrick’s Day.