<p>The Brisbane Courier 
Tuesday 1 Aug 1865
</p><p>OPENING OF THE FIRST RAILWAY IN QUEENSLAND
</p><p>(From our Special Reporter)
</p><p>The formal opening of the "Southern and Western Railway" yesterday, commenced a new era in the history of the colony, and one the advent of which has been looked forward to with much anxiety for some time past. In no country in this world could such an event occur without exciting the deepest interest, affecting as it must do so materially the future prospects of the inhabitants. More especially, then, must that interest be felt in a new colony such as Queensland, where the necessity for a certain and speedy means of communication between the great centres of population is so apparent. Experience has shown that not only is the progress of a country retarded by the want of a facility for traffic, but its very existence is threatened. 
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