Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
The developer of a proposed rail line from Toowoomba to Gladstone will give evidence to a federal parliamentary inquiry today.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
A series of battered old sepia photographs have revealed a story of passion, pioneers, hard work, railways and ghosts.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
Train drivers can mistake a red danger signal for a yellow light in certain conditions, according to Australian researchers, who say their finding is a "major safety concern".
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
Queensland rail investigators says vandals were responsible for an overnight tilt train accident which injured three people near Gladstone.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
INVESTIGATIONS have begun into why overhead wires came down and smashed a window of a tilt train, injuring three passengers as it travelled through central Queensland.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
Three passengers were injured when overhead wires came down and smashed a window of the tilt train as it travelled through central Queensland.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
A spark from a cane train wheel is believed to have started a large fire that burnt through grazing land and cane fields at Mirani, west of Mackay yesterday.
Posted 16 years ago by freightgate
BRAD Webb is as proud as punch and why shouldn't he be?
You would be too if your local company was constructing one of the biggest rail container terminals built in Queensland in a generation.
The $47 million complex for Toll Holdings is rising out of the dust at Stuart and nearing completion - far from the boardroom dramas afflicting Toll and its Pacific National rail joint venture operator Patrick Corp.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
An outback mayor fears a re-allocation of Queensland Rail (QR) staff is signalling a reduction in services to the west.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
Queensland Rail (QR) says it has settled more than 50 compensation claims from last year's tilt-train derailment near Bundaberg.
Posted 16 years ago by bevans
Queensland is set to become home to the world's largest coal port, as Premier Peter Beattie announces a mammoth funding injection into the State's coal supply network.
Gladstone will become the world's largest coal exporting port by 2010 following a $1.8 billion investment announcement, boosting coal export capacity by 20 million tonnes a year.
Posted 16 years ago by bevans
A report into last year's tilt train derailment near Bundaberg in south-east Queensland has made 11 recommendations.
Posted 16 years ago by bevans
SOUTHEAST Queensland motorists are being increasingly forced to compete for road space with heavy vehicles bound for the Port of Brisbane.
A key agricultural group representing the grains industry has revealed ailing rail infrastructure between the Darling Downs and Brisbane has forced operators to turn to roads.
Posted 16 years ago by bevans
A move by Queensland Rail (QR) to cut staff at railway stations on the Sunshine Coast has led to strong criticism from the Rail, Tram and Bus Union.
Posted 16 years ago by bevans
THE final report into the crash of a Queensland Rail tilt train blames excessive speed and says the driver did not cut the throttle as he entered a bend, possibly because he was distracted.
And it confirms that the co-driver was not in his seat when the train crashed off the rails at Beradjondo, north of Bundaberg, injuring more than 120 of the 157 passengers and crew.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
AUSTRALIAN Transport & Energy Corridor has invited a range of potential mining sector partners to join its proposed $775 million Toowoomba to Gladstone railway which would open up the coal-rich Surat Basin.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
Construction on the $775 million Gladstone to Toowoomba inland rail project is expected to start next year.
Posted 16 years ago by TA 2000
The Queensland Services Union says a planned trial of 24-hour Citytrain services in Brisbane will fail unless the safety of passengers and rail staff can be guaranteed.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
Queensland Rail (QR) will investigate a fatal accident north of Mackay yesterday involving a coal train and a cane tractor.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
The Queensland Government will close the Jericho-Blackall-Yaraka railway line at the request of locals who a decade ago fiercely opposed Labor plans to pull up the central-western Queensland spur.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
Catastrophe was narrowly avoided when a semi-trailer collided with a goods train in Stuart last night, forcing it from the tracks. The derailed train stopped just metres short of a live high voltage power transformer.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
A goods train has derailed in the north Queensland city of Townsville after hitting a semi-trailer at a crossing.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
The developer of a proposed inland rail line says he hopes to complete a section between Toowoomba and Gladstone within four years.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
A new railway venture on the Southern Darling Downs is expected to inject $1.5 million into the economy in its first year.
Posted 16 years ago by DavidB
The Queensland Government is inviting Queenslanders to have a say on the scope of an environmental statement on the proposed Northern Missing Link rail line in Central Queensland.
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