Allora Railway Station dates back to 1897 but is disused now, along with the grain sheds alongside. The old wooden sleepers are becoming badly deteriorated.

The train don't go here no more. The sad old railway station at Billinudgel. Bypassed by the highway and with the train service ended, you'd swear the authorities are trying to kill off these emblematic small Australian towns.

This abandoned roadhouse is by the side of the Toowoomba Highway at Blacksoil. Although damaged, it's not as trashed as you would expect. It must have been a very ugly building in its day!

Some of the fittings are still there on the service counter of the abandoned roadhouse at Blacksoil.

On the corner of Nudgee Road and Kingsford Smith Drive at Ascot in Brisbane, this is the last in what was once a long line of shops. All the rest are gone now, I wonder if this one, "the last in the line", is lonely.

You'd never know, unless you saw it from the side, that this architect's office at Fortitude Valley in Brisbane was in fact an old World War 2 igloo!

This is not something you see often, an abandoned ambulance station at Thynne Street in Brisbane's Morningside. There's an excellent mango tree at the back; I wonder who'll be picking them now.... maybe I'll be back in December!

The former South Brisbane municipal offices date back to when South Brisbane was a separate "city" to Brisbane itself. I believe that it was one of General Macarthur's headquarters during WW2. It now belongs to the adjacent Sommerville House private girls school - see this page for the full story.

The former Princess Theatre opposite the Mater Hospital in South Brisbane is now home to various businesses.

I've always neem drawn to this iconic old building in Brisbane's Wooloongabba; the old Moreton Rubber Works.

This is the former Paragon Theatre in the historic town of Childers. It's a big weatherboard building but now is partly occupied by clothing outlets. I couldn't get in but could see through the main doors that the ticket booth and entry were still intact. Wonder what's inside....

The quaint former butcher shop, built 1923, is now functioning as a picture gallery. Located next to the main intersection leading north to Queensland, south to Murwillumbah or west to Tyalgum, and across from Crystal Creek, it really catches the eye.

The old railway station is in excellent repair and is used by local interest groups as a meeting place in Coominya.

The old railway line route through Coominya now lacks tracks!

The Esk Railway Station served the town from when the railway opened in 1886 until the line was closed in 1993. Unlike most old railway stations I've seen in the Brisbane River Valley, this one is NOT being preserved and is beginning to show signs of decay.

Despite being abandoned for 13 years, the old Esk Railway Station hasn't (yet) been trashed or heavily defaced by grafitti. This old chalk board notice dates back to 1993 and is surprisingly still legible. It reads "Fares as from 1-2-1993 are as follows: Brisbane single $10.10 return $20.20, Ipswich single $6.90 return $13.80, Pensioners and children half fare. Ticket to be purchased from Bus Driver. For long distance bookings contact Station Master or phone Toogoolawah 1-3pm."

The old Forest Hill fire station with its water (?) tower appears abandoned now. There are a few disused or "recycled" buildings around town.

The original Forest Hill railway station has been restored and is now the centrepiece of a nice picnic area near the war memorial.

Another "recycled" building in Forest Hill; this time it's the old movue theatre. It's been converted into two spacious apartments. I tried to find out the name of the old theatre from an elderly resident in one of the apartments but no luck.

Amazing photo of clouds descending into the dead-end valley at Lost World in the Gold Coast hinterland, south of the tiny town of Kerry, near Beaudesert south of Brisbane. When we arrived at Lost World less than an hour before the photo was taken, the sky was clear.

Marburg Motors has seen better days. There is a similar building opposite which seems as if it may have been a workshop or similar but abandoned now.

If Marburg Motors has seen better days, what about this old wooden service ramp! It looks old enough to have catered to Model Ts.

A very abandoned shed at Woodlands House, the former Roman Catholic seminary near Marburg.

The former Butcher Shop in Marmor, now used as a storage area/workshop. You can still see the shop title in the peeling paint. Also see the entry path, concrete kerb and guttering and a "Give Way" sign; clues to a grander past?

Spotted this old WW2 air raid shelter just outside the railway station in Maryborough. The sign reads "AIR RAID SHELTER FOR PASSENGERS ONLY". That's one way of getting business! The entry is sealed by a locked steel gate.

The Dominion Milling Company was obviously a big operation in Maryborough once. The faded sign on the roof says "The Old Millhouse Bowerbird Nest" and it appears to be a big second hand goods site now.

This old Golden Fleece sign is something you don't see anymore, since the brand stopped being separately marketed here in Australia. This one is outside a former roadhouse, now coffee shop, on the Cunningham Highway near Maryvale, near Cunninghams Gap between Brisbane and Warwick. The view beyond is the fertile country near Maryvale.

The sign over the entrance of this abandoned theatre in Rosedale says "Civic" hence I'm calling it the Civic Theatre. There's another sign which says "Mountain Arts" and the sign outside the entry poignantly says "Maybe the last exhibition"....

Spotted this abandoned old settler's house in one of the main streets in Rosewood. What a beauty. Even though the house in no longer used, its yard sports several large aviaries and some bee hives.

The former General Store at Tallegalla, between Marburg and Rosewood west of Brisbane, is the only remaining building left of the town. Now it's just a placename on a map. Its main claim to fame now is its cemetary; it has a fantastic view over the country for miles around.

VALE, Tennyson Power Station, formerly of Brisbane; demolished to make way for a tennis complex in late 2006 and now preserved only in this Google Earth image, news stories , libraries etc. There were also some reports of infiltrations by urban explorers around on the web. Damn, I should have gone there while I could!

The old Tyalgum butter factory is now functioning as a motor vehicle repair workshop.

An interesting photo of Moreton Bay with North Stradbroke Island in the background, taken from Wellington Point in Redland Shire south of Brisbane. Notice how the land seems to end abruptly and the tree seems to emerge from the water.