Leader: Greg 3351 4092
Meet: Roma Street Station Pl 9
Time: 9:29 AM
Cost: 50c GoCard fares
Food: Bring your lunch & drinks
Emerg Off: Greg 0418 122 995
I can bet you have never been to Gympie North.
I can bet you have never been beyond Glasshouse Mtns by rail.
Come with me to see and be amazed by the countryside between Nambour and Gympie.
Travel in the air-conditioned comfort of the express NGR train speeding silently along the rails to your destination.
This is as far as you can go on the Translink Suburban Network. In fact, I would like to go from Varsity Lakes to Gympie North – the network from South to North. However, the timings do not allow this to happen.
This is the longest and furthest journey you can make for the 50c. The cost to you is .001445c per kilometre – very economical.
Look out for those stations you saw on Terry’s Noosa Trails Daywalks – Yandina, Eumundi, Cooroy, Pomona, and Cooran. Look out the window to spot the trails you have waked along.
Look out the window at the lush verdant green dairy country, the black & white Guernsey cattle, the cute little villages, the native state forests & national parks, the wide rivers crossed by arched iron bridges, narrow winding creeks, the rich red volcanic earth – can you take any more excitement?
Since there is only one suitable train up and only one suitable train back, we are stuck with these times. What it means is that we cannot get out to have lunch. It has to be a BYO picnic on the station platform. Gympie North is not in town, and there is no retail area (ie: shops or cafes) near the Station. Thus, bring all food, thermos, water & drinks with you from home. Why not pack a wicker picnic basket with all those rare goodies you pack for those special occasions. Adds to the adventure, doesn’t it.
If you live along the line as we head north, you can just get on as we pass – just make sure it is our train & that it stops – check Journey Planner as the rest of us will. .
Times:
9:29am – Leave Roma Street Station Pl 9 for Gympie North
12:43pm – Arrive Gympie North and have your picnic lunch on the platform
1:21pm – Leave Gympie North
4:20pm – Arrive Roma Street Station and home