Yes David, that is the Neath Signal Box
Gap, try the local history societies in the new regional Govt entity: City of Harvey Bay. The coal from the Howard/Burrum coalfield (inland from Maryborough) was eventually loaded onto coastal colliers from the rail line on the open water pier. In the early days, ie my mother’s schooldays, when returning home to Mackay from boarding school in Brisbane, would travel by a boat train from Brisbane Central to Urandangi Pier, board a coastal steamer sailing north to Mackay. Where off the coast at Sandy Isle be transferred by bosun’s chair to a tender and taken up the Pioneer River to Mackay. Before the completion of the linking of all the regional railways in 1924 by the rail bridge over the North Johnstone River at Daradgee to form the 1000 mile long North Coast Railway between Brisbane and Cairns, the future route of the historic “Sunshine Express”.
Sadly some were cut up before we had a chance to repatriate a ROD from your neck of the woods. Though we have one it is owned by the NRM and has been in ticket on the GCR but I think it is waiting restoration again now.
There is a preserved one at the Richmond Vale operation in NSW, but when I was there in late 2003 it was dismantled, though I did find the boiler!
