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Category: Transport

Transport statistics

{accordion}Motor vehicles per dwelling (statistical districts)::

Upper Kedron

Ferny Grove

Hills District

Keppera

Total

None

4

28

80

108

220

One

172

436

1458

790

2856

Two

415

685

3021

777

4898

Three

144

340

1211

244

1939

Four+

10

24

96

31

161

||||Total motor vehicles (statistical districts)::

Upper Kedron

Ferny Grove

Hills District

Keppera

Total

1474

2922

11517

3200

19113

||||Method of travel to work::

Upper Kedron

Ferny Grove

Ferny Hills

Arana Hills

Keppera

Total

Work at home

54

87

157

138

79

515

Walked only

22

42

41

50

56

211

Bicycle

3

11

13

23

23

73

Car

853

1836

2962

2437

1912

9900

Train

97

453

470

275

379

1674

Motorbike/ scooter

26

27

72

43

48

216

Truck

14

26

70

45

41

196

Bus

0

19

14

31

21

85

Taxi

6

7

7

3

7

30

Train & car

48

85

149

155

75

512

Train & bus

24

30

23

26

19

122

Train & other

10

20

8

4

12

54

Bus & car

4

0

3

11

5

23

Train & two other methods

6

10

26

14

14

70

{/accordion}

ABS Census 2006

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Getting to church on Sunday

  • The Grove Community Church meets at Ralph Took Auditorium Ferny Grove Senior High School. Walk from Ferny Grove Station.
  • St William’s Catholic Church 67 Dawson Parade Grovely  3355 2667 – Near Grovely Station
  • All Saints Anglican Church Cobbity Crescent Ferny Hills 3851 0526. Walk from 398
  • Ferny Hills Assembly of God 3351 6666. 397 or 398
  • Jehovah’s Witnesses 60 Leslie St Arana Hills  3351 1308  Walk from Route 397 or 398
  • Arana Hills Uniting Church Alstonia St cnr Cycas St Arana Hills  3851 0441. Walk from 398
  • The Hills Christian Family. 397
  • Arana Hills Church of Christ 2 Bringelly St Arana Hills   3851 2022. 397 or 398
  • Keperra Baptist Church Samford Rd Keperra. 398
  • Grovely Gospel Chapel 38 Woking St Grovely  3855 2188. Walk from 397 or 398

Ferny Grove Line trains

6:05am arrives Ferny Grove;  6:28am leaves Ferny Grove

7:05am arrives Ferny Grove;  7:28am leaves Ferny Grove

8:05am arrives Ferny Grove;  8:28am leaves Ferny Grove

Bus 397

7:31am read more

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Travelling from The Grove

{accordion}Airports::

Brisbane Airport

  • Transfers between the Airtrain line and the Ferny Grove line are made at any of Bowen Hills Brunswick Street Central Roma Street and  with some exceptions (not trains leaving Ferny Grove at 7.43am 8.07am 8.20am 9.58am) South Brisbane or South Bank. Several trains leaving Bowen Hills Central or Roma Street do not go right through to Ferny Grove finishing at Mitchelton Station but a transfer can be made from Mitchelton Station to Ferny Grove on a later train.

Coolangatta Airport on the Gold Coast can also be reached by public transport  to the Gold Coast (train and bus).{/accordion}

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Getting to schools TAFE universities

Information needed about school bus services to private colleges

State primary schools

  • Ferny Grove State School
  • Patricks Rd State School
  • Grovely State School
  • Ferny Hills State School
  • Mitchelton Special School

State high schools

  • Ferny Grove Senior High School

Private schools

  • Hillbrook Anglican College
  • Mt Maria Senior College
  • St Williams Catholic School
  • St Andrews Catholic School

TAFE Colleges

  • Brisbane North TAFE Grovely Campus
  • [Brisbane Institute of TAFE Oxford Park Campus]

Universities & TAFE Colleges

  • University of Queensland
  • Queensland University
  • Griffith University

Pre-school child-care early education read more

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