One of the final townships on the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail before arriving in the South Burnett, Linville was once a major rail station, becoming the largest railhead for beef cattle in South East Queensland and the second largest in the southern hemisphere. The introduction of the railway in 1910 allowed the timber industry to develop, with a sawmill opening in 1912 and logging continuing to be an important industry until the 1950s when cattle grazing became the predominant local industry. Nowadays, the railway has long since been retired after the rail trail was closed in 1989 but you can still admire the old station and an abandoned set of carriages.