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Rockhampton was also the junction of the Central Western line and Emu Park line. In January 2023, public consultation was undertaken to help shape the station's redevelopment. [ 1 ] A new customer lounge and shelters will be built, as well as accessible car parking and improved connectivity to other public transport.
On 18 November 2000, 3W56 Longreach-bound Spirit of the Outback came within 50 metres of colliding head-on with a Gladstone-bound coal train. [7] The close call occurred 15 kilometres west of Dingo when the coal train proceeded through a red signal and entered the same section of track the Spirit of the Outback was travelling on. [7]
The Capricornian was eventually merged with the Rockhampton - Winton Midlander Train and the merged service was renamed the Spirit of the Outback in November 1993, which now runs from Brisbane to Longreach with a connecting coach service to Winton, largely to cater for the 'rail cruising' tourism market.
Queensland Rail (QR) is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia.Queensland Rail is owned by the Queensland Government, and operates both suburban and interurban rail services in South East Queensland, as well as long-distance passenger train services connecting Brisbane to regional Queensland.
There were six Rockhampton Mail trains/week in 1914, reduced to 5 times per week in the 1930s. In 1938 a new series of passenger cars were introduced, known as Sunshine cars. The introduction of diesel locomotives in 1952 enabled the Brisbane-Rockhampton transit time to be reduced by 2.25 hours.
Business class seating arrangement of a Diesel Tilt Train . Commencing in 1998, the Electric Tilt Train operates from Brisbane to Rockhampton.With a top service speed of 160 km/h (100 mph) and the ability to tilt five degrees in each direction, the Tilt Train is one of the fastest trains in Australia, having a similar maximum allowed speed in revenue service to the V/Line VLocity and the ...
The Spirit of Queensland is a Queensland Rail long distance passenger rail service. It is operated by a diesel-powered Tilt Train that runs five times a week on the North Coast line between Brisbane and Cairns, a distance of 1,681 kilometres (1,045 mi). [3]
2174 hauls a northbound goods train on the Denison Street section of the North Coast Line in Rockhampton. The rail network in Queensland, Australia, was the first in the world to adopt 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge for a main line, and, in 2013, was claimed to the second largest narrow gauge network in the world, [1] consists of: