Remnants concrete platform, Railway Pumphouse (former), bank of Six Mile Creek, Queen Street, Cooran, ca 2000

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TitleRemnants concrete platform, Railway Pumphouse (former), bank of Six Mile Creek, Queen Street, Cooran, ca 2000Additional InformationImage taken prior or during 2000 to be used in 'The Historical Cultural Heritage Study of Noosa Shire', commissioned by Noosa Council and completed in 2002.

Extract from study, p.91:

The platform was built as a base for a pump house to supply water for steam trains at Cooran Railway Station256, (a distance of approximately 100 metres away). Cooran water (ie from Six Mile Creek) was regarded as good for the purpose. The pump house is thought to have serviced the railway from its inception on 10 June 1889, when the first
stage, the line from Gympie opened.

The pump house was a galvanised iron shed on the bank of Six Mile Creek. A three inch galvanised pipe was laid under the road, to take water from the pump house to two water tanks on stumps at the side of the railway line (off Bridge Street), where it was stored for the steam trains. Canvas hoses into tenders on the trains conveyed the water. It was an essential part of the steam train system. In 1901 - 1902 the water pump boiler was replaced with a new one.

Diesel trains were introduced on the North Coast Line from the mid 1950’s and water would not have been needed after the mid 1960’s.

Ted Stolberg, as a thirteen-year-old boy living in Cooran helped his father shovel and cart coal from the railway station to the pumping station at Six Mile Creek.Dateca 2000Image NoT2009855

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Heritage Library CatalogueHistorical cultural heritage of Noosa Shire : an historical overview and associated sites, features & precincts / Noosa Shire Strategic Planning, September 2002.

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CopyrightIn Copyright. This image may be used for educational and non-commercial research purposes. It must not be reproduced for any other purposes without the prior permission of Noosa Libraries.AttributionImage courtesy Heritage Noosa Image No. (insert).

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Remnants concrete platform, Railway Pumphouse (former), bank of Six Mile Creek, Queen Street, Cooran, ca 2000

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Remnants concrete platform, Railway Pumphouse (former), bank of Six Mile Creek, Queen Street, Cooran, ca 2000