Queenland Rail
Train in Brisbane

Building and maintaining our network Design and construct. Overdimensional loads Frequently asked questions. Contractors Health assessments for rail industry workers. In the community engagement Customer reference groups. Resources for teachers, students and parents. Our performance Service punctuality and reliability. Queensland Rail is committed to proactively publishing operational performance data. The operational performance data includes key performance indicators for both the Citytrain and Traveltrain networks in areas such as punctuality and reliability, safety and security and customer satisfaction. Providing an onetime service for our customers is a priority at Queensland Rail and we make every effort to ensure our Citytrain services adhere to the published timetable. Service punctuality and reliability relates to the number of services that arrive at their destination on time as well as the number of service cancellations. Safety is Queensland Rail’s number one priority. We are focused on being a world class safety organization that delivers an incident, injury and illness free environment for our employees, our customers and the communities in which we operate. Queensland Rail is committed to providing quality customer service and we strive to set fresh standards of excellence in this field.

In the community engagement Customer reference groups. In many ways, our wide network of lengthy distance, tourist and city tracks has played a major piece in shaping the history of Queensland and connecting communities. Many places in Queensland were created with the advent of the railway, and the demand for the railway as a service also meant many industries grew along with the railway. By the 1960s the growing coal export market was the catalyst for the expansion of coal haulage railways in central Queensland. The Maura concise line which as a entirely dedicated to coal exports was opened in 1968. Rama Street station one of the network's major stations, was also given a major revitalization and expanded to ten platforms in 1997. Although a new company much of the cultural heritage and history of the past nearly 150 years of the railway industry in Queensland are portion of the story of Queensland Rail. The railways provided health, and medical services, education, and a join to the outside world for many secluded Queen slanders. The beginning of the 150 gifts commenced with the restoration of two heritage steam locomotives and nine wooden carriages, which were shared with more than 14,00 passengers through exceptional steam train experiences throughout Queensland. Rail history storyboards and commemorative bench seats which replicate a Queensland Government Railways platform seat from the 1920s were also gifted to councils where the rail industry has played an important role in the establishment of their region over the years. As segment of Queensland Rail's 150 years of rail, we have created storyboards on select stations which details the history of the station and its contribution to the community. However, in the beginning of the steam era on the Queensland Railways, in the 1860s, the first steam locomotives burnt wood. Although coke was to be the preferred variety of locomotive fuel, (a contract was awarded for its supply in 1869), in 1870, the Commissioner for Queensland Railways made the decision, instead, to go with coal as the fuel for steam locomotives. Steam operations to the west of Rama came to an final in 1964. Image caption The ambitious atmosphere of Rama is captured very nicely in this photograph taken around the hasty 1900’s. An additional 30 locomotives were built in 1924 to supplement the locomotive fleet of Queensland Railways behind the opening of the North Coast line, and to cope with increasing traffic on the lighter western lines. They also proved a versatile engine being capable of working goods trains, shunt trains, as mail trains and suburban passenger trains as well. Image caption Lenard Road Train engine, photographed around the time of its arrival in Queensland, in 1910. The exceptional exhibit was definitely something out of the ordinary, an example of the progress made in locomotive construction. What was to eventuate was a side by display of what was then the oldest (and least steam locomotive) that had survived from 1865 with Queensland Railways, and the largest (and most modern) steam locomotive, with carriages Given that no railway lines actually led into Market Square, to move the two notable trains into their exhibition area took some doing. Both locomotives traveled together to Brisbane, with their carriages, as segment of a special train working. Consequently many railway stations in Queensland became home to these community expressions of pride, grief, and remembrance. The Warwick one prominently features a steam locomotive in recognition of the local railway workers. 1952 First diesel electric locomotives reach into service.