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Does anyone on the group know anything about the resort railway on Quoin Island in Gladstone Harbour? The resort has been closed for 10 years and has recently...
Hi john. I just googled Quion Island and there are some pics which shows some of the rail lines. One pic looks like 2ft, but in others it looks wider. here's a...
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$32m to take Tasmanian rail network public Matthew Denholm | July 02, 2009 , Article from: The Australian TASMANIAN taxpayers will spend $32 million to bring...
Inland rail scheme eyes coal line sale ABC News LRE ISA TSV MKY Posted Wed Jul 1, 2009 8:28am AEST The proposed sale of Queensland Rail's (QR) coal haulage...
Are they going to buy this before or after they build the Surat Basin coal line? Then if they can find the money to standard gauge the GNR that should end the...
Sounds like a good deal, 'my' State Government paid $60M for a pedestrian footbridge, that won't haul anywhere near the amount even a 'slightly used' state...
As I said in response to Ben's posting, will this before or after Surat basin line is built. It would be cheaper to buy it but they want to standard gauge the...
I thought that was how you spelt gauge? I was thinking maybe that it is two trains competing maybe dual could have been DUEL !!!! ;-) GMS In memory of Mervyn...
1089 went west on its journey all the way to Mt Isa. Of interest to me was seeing 1620, however it did not make the trip. Did it stay in Townsville during...
Hi all, I was wondering if I'll see much on the border loop line on Friday. I can stay until late, or would it be better to go very early saturday? TIA Alan J...
Hi Alan, Only NT32 on Friday, away from Roma Street at 7.30 am, Glenapp at 8.44am. Saturday has NT32 as above and 7BM2 with Ben at the controls, due out of ACR...
Web host has taken it down again ... the cpu usage on it is starting to eat into other user's resources on the shared host. I'm struggling to find a good value...
... Townsville Bulletin is reporting this morning that Clive Palmer will announced today (or Monday) that he has purchased the Yabulu Nickel Refinery and saved...
I believe it was just a simple end to end line from jetty to main entrance area to carry bags etc. I have lived to Gladstone for 11 years and the resort was...
... BHP-Billiton has announced the sale is going ahead. The BHP spokesperson (head of the Stainless Steel division) said he believed the GPN consortium will...
MT Isa - T'ville understand, but why T'ville Bowen? ATEC, I just wonder when they actually might one day build something? Who funds their salaries? Its been...
... Bowen now - more or less officially - sits at one corner of the NQ industrial triangle (Townsville and Mt Isa are the other points). There's big plans for...
... I was putting together my narrow gauge lease fleet until I got the bad news :-) My headline act was going to be a gauge convertible A1A-A1A AC (or Co-Co...
In all honesty, the current ARTC timetable is very unfriendly to enthusiasts. Nearly all trains run through the darkness, particularly in Winter. XPTs aren't...
All How is this (see below) for a fine piece of accurate media reporting? Or – was it a poor piece of QR PR that got it so wrong? After witnessing some of...
Locomotives HAUL or PULL trains, they do not TUG them !!! I think this journo has been tugging too much. I'll leave the other errors alone. Ben _____ From:...
Thanks Ben, I went down that way this morning. I won't be going next Saturday due to the All Gauge train show at Carina. Due to a GPS malfunction I went the...
Hi all Another double header has appeared on the 24 VASO set, this time 2192F/2212 (2212 being a former Burdekin loco itself). They've just headed down to the...
Sunday 5th - 0900 - PN008 + PN011 down Frt. 0910 - 2170D + 2486H down "Sunlander" - #PC37 Rgds Bill (Dunn) [Non-text portions of this message have been...
was recently given some lists from 1969 showing were old BCC trams went after closure most of these would by now have been removed maybe a number of you...
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