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QR Network operates in communities across the state of Queensland. We actively participate in community consultation and provide media releases on our business and developments to support our customers’ rail infrastructure needs.
QR has started tracklaying to duplicate 10.5 kilometres of track between Coppabella and Ingsdon on the Goonyella coal rail system in central Queensland to support customer demand.
Flooding in the central west and north west of the state continues to have an impact on a number of QR rail lines.
QR’s largest infrastructure project, the $500 million Jilalan Rail Yard Upgrade, which is set to deliver a huge 38 million tonne boost to central Queensland’s coal haulage capacity, reached a milestone today (27 Mar) with completion of critical track work.
The Mount Isa line will reopen for trains on Monday 2 March after QR crews repaired the track following flood damage earlier this month.
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Horizon is our regular external newsletter featuring useful updates about our business, our service, our performance and developments on the network that are of interest to our customers and stakeholders.
The Coal Rail Master Plan provides transparency on future capital investment in the Central Queensland coal region and the Western System in southern Queensland.
On 1 September 2008, QR Network Pty Ltd became a stand alone subsidiary company of QR Ltd.
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.
