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Burleigh to Border Light Rail Cancellation “Bitterly Disappointing”
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And today, 38 years plus one day since that photo on the Sandridge Bridge, here's the modern day incarnation of that same preserved Tait with a chuffy thing on the back, running a Steamrail Belgrave to Ringwood shuttle between Upper Ferntree Gully and Ferntree Gully.
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EMU 59 at Roma St station
Last day for revenue service of the Queensland Rail
EMUs. EMU 59 is doing a farewell tour today. Details > queenslandrail.com.au/forcustomers...
BTQ Media release: Brisbane’s New Bus Network a Positive Step, but Many Still Left Waiting
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A Queensland Rail goods train hauled by a blue and white liveried diesel locomotive runs away from us on a track that runs alongside the far side of a suburban street. A second track branches from the track on which the train is travelling and curves towards us across the street and through the grassy verge one which I was standing when taking this photo. A hotel and various suburban industrial buildings and facilities fill the background behind the train.
Today's historic pic: A Queensland Rail goods train heads south-west along the side-of-road track in Spence Street, Cairns, Qld, July 27 1986. The line curving towards us led to Cairns station. Tracks along Spence St were removed in the 1990s and trains nowadays run south via Portsmith instead.
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A goods train, double-headed by two diesel locomotives in QR light blue livery heads away from us along a single track mainline in a peri-urban location with a grassy paddock in the lower foreground.
Today's historic pic: A Queensland Rail goods train headed by what I think is 2470 class diesel 2475 and a 1502 class at Kawana, Queensland, July 18 1986. Kawana is in the northern suburbs of Rockhampton about 640km north of Brisbane on QR's 1067mm gauge Brisbane to Cairns North Coast main line.
27.05.2025 04:28 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0You’ve Been Lied To About Roads For 60 Years
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Wave goodbye to heavy rail to Maroochydore.
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How do you feel about having BRT use the reserved corridor to Maroochydore?
It’s fascinating to know how others see us, so urbanist Youtuber Ray Delahunty @nerd4cities.bsky.social reports from his recent visit to this corner of the world were eagerly awaited
TL;DR he glows about Melbourne though myki gets a dry roast
His Sydney report next apparently
youtu.be/oUqavm7KhGg
For your information, RAIL Back On Track has gone into retirement. In place is a new advocacy group ' Better Transport Queensland (BTQ)'. BTQ members advocate for public and active transport as well as regional transport, and freight rail.
See > bettertransportqueensland.org
A single car Redhen diesel railcar in Indian Red livery with distinctive orange tiger stripes on the aprons beneath the two front windows and a route indicator plate at its front bottom right displaying a yellow X on a black background, heads along the furthest of four main line tracks running is a railway alignment. Behind the train is an additional pair of tracks on a slightly higher alignment, and beyond that, behind the railway property, is a water tank on a tall tankstand.
Today's historic pic: Exactly 40 years ago today, Adelaide Redhen diesel railcar 436 runs an Adelaide-bound trip from Belair or Bridgewater near Keswick, SA, April 9 1985. Redhen railcars ran Adelaide's broad gauge suburban trains from 1955 until the last few were withdrawn in late 1996.
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