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QR is continuing to expand the capacity of its coal rail network with the completion of initial works for the second rail balloon loop at the Abbot Point Coal Terminal in Central Queensland.
Due to population growth in the western suburbs, the western rail line from Brisbane to Ipswich is being upgraded to increase the capacity of the corridor.
QR Network has commissioned 14 kilometres of newly duplicated track in Central Queensland between Broadlea and Wotonga ahead of schedule and $18 million under budget.
With the growing pressure of meeting the ever-increasing demand for coal, QR is responding by providing solutions to help ease capacity constraints in Queensland's coal systems.
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QR Network is Australia’s leading rail infrastructure business. We operate a 10,000 kilometre rail network serving the coal, bulk freight, passenger and intermodal transport markets in Queensland. Our aim is to attract the largest share of the land transport market to rail.
The single largest commodity transported on our network
Includes containerised and bulk freight, livestock, minerals and other commodities
Primarily metropolitan passenger transport, but also freight and coal
Intermodal transport via the Brisbane Multi-User Term
We manage the largest export coal rail network in Australia transporting more than 160 million tonnes of coal from Central Queensland mines to six ports each year.
Our bulk and containerised freight transport network runs the length of Queensland’s coast and reaches inland to serve the rich North West Minerals province and regional communities.
Our South East Queensland network services passenger, freight and coal trains traversing the seven separate rail lines that radiate across the region from the Brisbane CBD.
Nearly 270,000 twenty-foot equivalent containers transit the Brisbane Multi-User Terminal annually, to supply the Brisbane metropolitan retail market.
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QR Network's portal environments are password protected and only available to existing customers and stakeholders.
The Australian rail industry is open to competition and in Queensland, rail operators can apply to use QR Network’s 10,000km of narrow gauge, standard gauge and dual gauge track.
Road produces approximately 4.5 times more CO2 equivalent (green house gas emissions) than rail.
Rail is a much safer form of transport than road (road has approximately 40 times the amount of transport fatalities than rail).
Queensland’s vast rail network is owned by QR and supported by state of the art infrastructure and systems. The rail network is valued at some $AUD6 billion.
On 1 September 2008, QR Network Pty Ltd became a stand alone subsidiary company of QR Ltd.
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