Steam into Spring Part of the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers 19 – 28 September 2003

Downs Steam

Steam train from Toowoomba to Helidon (return by coach)
Saturday 20 September 2003
Train departs Toowoomba at 1.50pm and the coach returns at 5.00pm
The Saturday train stops for 20 minutes at Spring Bluff for passangers to view the gardens.

Sunday 21 September 2003
Train departs Toowoomba at 2.40pm and the coach returns at 5.15pm
The Sunday train runs express to Helidon

Fares
Adults: $18.00, Children $9.00

Tickets available from the Toowoomba Railway Station ticket office, from 26 August onwards.

General Information
The Australian Railway Historical Society Queensland Division is a non-profit company with liability limited by guarantee.  The objects of the Society are to promote the appreciation of railway heritage and to maintain authenticity in the recording and preservation of this heritage for the people of Queensland.  To help achieve these aims the Society operates under the following trading names:-
Iron Road Restaurant
Sunshine Express Rail Tours
Rosewood Railway Museum

IRON ROAD RESTAURANT
Tours are run using the sole remaining timber bodied dining car in which meals are served while passengers experience the ambience of a by-gone era.

SUNSHINE EXPRESS RAIL TOURS
The Society runs tours, usually on a monthly basis but sometimes more frequently, using preserved steam engines and wooden carriages from Queensland Rail's heritage fleet.  These engines and carriages are owned and maintained by QR for charter for special excursions.  Tours operate to a range of destinations bounded by Toowoomba in the west and Gympie in the north and can be of a full day or half day duration.  Once a year we normally run an extended tour lasting for a week or so when meals and accommodation are included.

ROSEWOOD RAILWAY MUSEUM
The Society operates its own preserved railway over a portion of the branch line that used to run from Rosewood to Marburg.  Here we have a re-creation of a typical Queensland Railway branch line of the post-war period.  The Museum at Freeman Road Kunkala is open for inspection every Sunday and trains consisting of historic wooden carriages hauled by a restored 1926 vintage steam engine operate on the last Sunday of each month.

CONDITIONS OF CARRIAGE
Tickets are issued subject to the Society's conditions of carriage, a full copy of which is supplied with each ticket.  These conditions set out the rights and obligations of the Society and its passengers.
The conditions deal with:

• the rights of the Society and Queensland Rail to alter any aspect of the tour or train at any time;
• limitations and exclusions of the Society's liability for passengers' losses;
• obeying directions of Society officers;
• luggage and alcohol;
• behaviour of passengers;
• lost property
• tickets and fares.

Tickets are issued at pensioner/senior fares to holders of Queensland Pensioner Concession Cards and Senior Cards only and these cards must be produced with the ticket when required for inspection.

Contact Infomation

Name: Sunshine Express Rail Tours Address: P.O. Box 11 19, TOOWONG, 4066 Phone: (07) 3252 1759 Fax: (07) 3252 1767. Web:  www.arhs-qld.org.au Email: