Down Coal Traffic

[mufreight]

It seems that the line might have reopened down the Toowoomba range with an empty coal movement through Ipswich about 1.40am this morning.

[ozbob]

Yes, heard opening from midnight tonight.  That train might be positioning ..

[bretto82]

that would have been a train for the mine near rosewood as there were still works happening around murphys creek all the way to grandchester with red boards still up and machines working at laidley and yerongmalu

[somebody]

The range has been down since Australia Day?

[ozbob]

The range has been down since Australia Day?

Yes, been closed, coalies have been running to and from Ebenezer though.

[mufreight]

Bit unusual to run a train into Ebenezer in the early hours of the morning, the trains there are loaded using endloaders and are normaly loaded during daylight hours.

[bretto82]

aurzion only has 5 sets down this end of the range so have been running what they can

[ozbob]

From ABC News click here!

Toowoomba-Brisbane rail services back on track

Toowoomba-Brisbane rail services back on track
By Rhianwen Whitney

Trains are once again able to travel between Toowoomba in southern Queensland and Brisbane.

Queensland Rail says last month's wet weather caused a land slip on the Toowoomba range railway, washing away about 9,000 cubic metres of soil.

Queensland Rail spokesman Graham Brown says several sections of the line were damaged in a similar way to the 2011 flood.

"Earlier on we thought maybe it would be more like four or five weeks' work," he said.

"But once we got into it and did some planning and got the geotechnical investigation done, we forecast that Thiess would finish by the Saturday.

"Then there was some railway works to do over the weekend to reinstate the rail line etc and basically we were back on timetable."

[ozbob]

Noted some coalies on the long haul around yesterday, as far as I know line reopened 0001 18th Feb 2013.

Job well done!   

[ozbob]

I have been advised by Queensland Rail that the Westlander will be departing ex Brisbane for Charleville on Thursday!



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