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Network Services 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 Network has strengthened provisions guaranteeing open and equitable access to the state’s coal rail network in its 2010 Draft Access Undertaking that was lodged with the Queensland Competition Authority (QCA) today.
Treasurer Andrew Fraser says QR is on the hunt for 800 more workers in the Mackay/Bowen/Townsville region to help build the $1.1 billion Goonyella to Abbot Point Expansion Project (GAP).
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.
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.
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.
QR has commissioned the newly constructed system passing loop between Peak Downs and Saraji to support growing customer needs, QR Chief Executive Officer, Mr Lance Hockridge, announced today.
The Rollingstock and Component Services workshop in Rockhampton was established in 1915 with the Roundhouse Complex.
The Rollingstock and Component Services workshop in Townsville has been the centre of railway maintenance activities in North Queensland since 1879.
The Australian rail industry is open to competition and rail operators can apply to use Network Services’s 2,300km of narrow gauge track in Central Queensland.
Road produces approximately 4.5 times more CO2 equivalent (green house gas emissions) than rail.
Network Services has 5 primary employment locations in Brisbane, Redbank, Rockhampton, Mackay and Townsville; 40 depots and 2 major Control Centres.
