Sunday in the Park
Maryborough's “Sunday in the Park” is a relaxed morning of fun, food, brass bands, steam train
rides and river cruises.
Brass bands play inside a graceful old band rotunda in Queens Park while the unique sounds of the locally made steam driven calliope echo across the park.
All morning, the Mary Ann, a full sized replica of Queensland’s fi rst steam locomotive built in Maryborough in 1873, chugs along the riverside taking passengers through Queens Park and the Mary River Parklands.
Children and adults can also climb onboard one of the many miniature steam engines, which run on a circuit around Queens Park. The sight of little legs – and not so little legs – dangling from tiny carriages as the trains weave around the track is guaranteed to delight.
It’s a tradition begun by the city’s Model Engineers and Live Steamers Association over 30 years ago – and one that uniquely captures Maryborough’s carefree, family-friendly lifestyle.