Milton, Queensland

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Milton, Queensland

Milton is an inner suburb of Brisbane

Brisbane

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, Australia

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, located approximately two kilometres west of Brisbane's central business district

Central business district

A central business district is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city. In Australia, China , Republic of Ireland, Kenya, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore and South Africa, the phrase is commonly used, and is often colloquially abbreviated to "CBD"....
. The suburb is a mixture of light industry, warehouses, commercial offices, retail and single and multiple occupancy residences. The main roads are Milton Road, which runs beside the main western rail line and Coronation Drive (formerly River Road), which runs along the Brisbane River

Brisbane River

The Brisbane River is the longest river in South East Queensland Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay....
.

een 1900 and 1962, Milton was served by trams running along Milton Road from Toowong and Rainworth, with the latter branching off at Baroona Road.

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Milton is an inner suburb of Brisbane

Brisbane

Australia

Central business district

Brisbane River

The Brisbane River is the longest river in South East Queensland Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay....
.

History

Between 1900 and 1962, Milton was served by trams running along Milton Road from Toowong and Rainworth, with the latter branching off at Baroona Road. The services were withdrawn after the disastrous Paddington tram depot fire

Paddington tram depot fire

The Paddington tram depot in Brisbane, Australia was destroyed by fire on the night of 28 September 1962, one of the largest fires in Brisbane's history....
and replaced by buses. The suburb continues to be served by most western suburb bus routes operated by Brisbane Transport

Brisbane Transport

Brisbane Transport is a business unit of Brisbane City Council, operating suburban and urban area bus services under the TransLink integrated public transport scheme in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia....
.

Between 1927 and 1969, the Brisbane City Council

Brisbane City Council

Brisbane City Council is the governing City council for Brisbane, which is the capital of Queensland, Australia. Unlike councils in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, where the local councils are generally responsible for relatively small areas of those cities, Brisbane City Council administers the larger part of the Brisbane metropolit...
's tramway

Trams in Brisbane

This article describes Brisbane's tram system, which operated between 1885 and 1969.Of the capital cities which closed their networks between the 1950s and 1970s , Brisbane was the last capital city to shut down its trams....
workshops were located at Boomerang Street, a site formerly used as a nightsoil dump. Trams accessed the workshops from Milton Road, under the railway line. After the closure of the tram system on 13 April, 1969, the workshops continued to be used to service the City Council's bus fleet, until the workshop complex was shifted to Toowong in 1979. The workshops were then demolished and the site used as a successful "Park and Ride" car park, where commuters could park their cars at the edge of the CBD

CBD

CBD is a common abbreviation for a central business district. It may also refer to:* Brazilian Sport Confederation, from 1919 to 1979 predecessor of Brazilian Football Confederation, the national governing body for football in Brazil...
and continue their journey by bus. However, in the late 1980s, a change in City Council policy saw the site sold for office development.

On the other side of Boomerang Street stood another notable Milton landmark, the Arnotts

Arnotts

Arnotts can refer to;* Arnott's Biscuits Holdings, an Australian biscuit and salted snack food company* Arnotts , a department store in Dublin, Ireland...
biscuit factory, which was demolished in the 1990s after Arnotts moved their Brisbane operations to Geebung.

The Brisbane City Council's trolley-bus depot and garage was located between Chippendale and Castlemaine Streets and operated between 1951 and 1969. The building remained until it was demolished to make way for the redevelopment of Suncorp Stadium.

Geography

Attractions

Notable landmarks in Milton include the Castlemaine Perkins

Castlemaine Perkins

Castlemaine Perkins is a brewery located in Milton, Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. It is a wholly-owned entity of the Japanese-controlled Lion Nathan company....
brewery

Brewery

A brewery is a dedicated building for the making of beer, though beer can be made in the home, and has been for much of beer's history. A company which makes beer is called either a brewery or a brewing company....
, known for the "Fourex" (XXXX

XXXX

XXXX is a brand of Australian beer brewing in Milton, Queensland, Brisbane by Queensland brewers, Castlemaine Perkins. It enjoys wide popularity in the state of Queensland and is commonly found on-tap in most Queensland pubs and bars....
) range of beers, the Suncorp Stadium

Suncorp Stadium

Lang Park, presently known as Suncorp Stadium, is a rectangular sporting stadium located in the Brisbane suburb of Milton, Queensland, Queensland, Australia....
(formerly Lang Park), and the Park Road strip of restaurants and cafés. The suburb also once was the site of Brisbane's major tennis courts where major international and national tournaments were held until the courts closed in the 1990s.

The Milton Bowl, a small ten-pin bowling alley

Ten-pin bowling

Ten-pin bowling is a Competition sport in which a player bowling form a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many Bowling pin as possible....
located at the Rosalie end of the suburb closed on 17 March 2008, after 45 years.

Transport

By Train, the Milton Railway Station

Milton railway station, Brisbane

Milton Station is a railway station in Milton, Queensland , Brisbane, Australia, and is part of the Ipswich railway line, Brisbane of the Queensland Rail Citytrain network....
is the first station on the Ipswich line

Ipswich railway line, Brisbane

The Ipswich railway line is an suburban rail transport extending 30.9 km southwest from Brisbane central business district , the state capital of Queensland, Australia....
west of Roma Street Station

Roma Street railway station, Brisbane

Roma Street railway station is a major railway railway station in the Brisbane central business district, the state capital of Queensland, Australia....
. It is served by commuter trains only.