Funny story, there are two Maryboroughs in Australia, Maryborough in Queensland with 27,000 people, and Maryborough Victoria with 8 thousand. Some people believe bureaucratic error led to the station being built in 1890 from plans for the station intended for Maryborough, Queensland (a much larger town), and was even bigger than Spencer street in Melbourne (The State Capitol) at the time. In 1895, Mark Twain visited Maryborough, which he dryly observed as being: "A railway station with a town attached. Why, you can put the whole population of Maryborough into it, and give them a sofa apiece, and have room for more. ".