Stage Number: MBSH.02.10.30
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: Sunnybank-Banoon
Epoch: Late 20th Century
Street Address: 120 Breton Street
Latitude & Longitude: -27.57647778,153.04646667
Time Link: 1937
Map Link: 1936
Image Time Point: 1936
Banoon had been a stopping place on the old South Coast line from 1937. The name “Banoon” is said to be a reference by the early locals to the southernmost branch of Stable Swamp Creek; “Banoon Creek,” a name that fell out of use. Banoon Railway Station was first constructed between 1949 and 1953. Around 1953 the platform at Banoon had been extended and raised. On 4 July 1955 a stationmistress was appointed. The old Banoon station was replaced in redevelopments of the stations on the Gold Coast line at the turn of the new century.
John Kerr and John Armstrong. Destination South Brisbane. Australian Railway Historical Society. 1978 p.29; Email correspondence with Greg Hallam, Queensland Rail Historian, 28 August 2013; Morgan Rack Railway to Go. The Courier Mail. 18 August 1949 p. 5; Big Rail Works On. The Courier Mail. 16 April 1953, p. 6; Coopers Plains Local History Group. A Closer Look at Coopers Plains. 2nd Edition, May 2005. p. 126.
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Qimagery. Brisbane 1936. Scale: 1:11,000.
