Travelling North

With today's cheap airfares to inter-state it seems hard to believe that travelling by train was the best option for long distance travel.

Not quite as romantic as travelling by ocean liner, but almost.

Travelling more than 1000 miles from Brisbane to Cairns, The Sunlander route has been traversed for more than 60 years and it still runs today.

Our featured photograph is a half page promotional ad in the 1954 edition of The Courier-Mail's Queensland Annual