Townsville’s ‘Hidden’ War Memorials – a T150 event. 23 Monday May 2016 Original size at 700 × 525 ≈ Leave a comment Image 11: 1913. The first steam trains to run past Saunders Beach from 1919 left from this station. It wasn’t until 1924 that the various sections of the Brisbane-Cairns coastal line were joined up.