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History. Bundaberg's first railway station, on the Mount Perry railway line, was built in 1881 as a transfer station to the Bundaberg docks for shipping coal from nearby mines. [1] It is now in use as a museum. The station has one side platform and a south facing bay platform. A yard exists opposite the station.
Regenerative electric and electro-pneumatic disc brakes. Track gauge. 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) The Electric Tilt Train is the name for two identical high-speed tilting trains operated by Queensland Rail for the Tilt Train service on the North Coast line from Brisbane to Rockhampton which entered service in November 1998.
Tilt Train is the name for two similar high-speed tilting train services, one electric and the other diesel, operated by Queensland Rail. They run on the North Coast line from Brisbane to Rockhampton (electric) and Cairns (diesel). Services commenced in 1998. The name Tilt Train often refers to the electric train service between Brisbane and ...
Maximum speed. 160 km/h (99 mph) Prime mover (s) German MTU. Transmission. Hydraulic. Track gauge. 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) The Diesel Tilt Train is the name for three high-speed tilting trains, operated by Queensland Rail on the North Coast line from Brisbane to Cairns as part of its Spirit of Queensland service.
Spirit of Capricorn departing Bundaberg Railway Station in 1989. The Spirit of Capricorn was a long distance passenger rail service in Queensland, Australia, Operated by Queensland Rail Traveltrain between 1988 and 24 May 2003. It operated between Rockhampton, Queensland and the Capital of the state, Brisbane at its station Roma Street .
RM 1901 crossing the Splitters Creek bridge ~1989. The Mount Perry Branch Railway is a closed railway line in Central Queensland, Australia. In 1869 copper was discovered at Mount Perry (approx 100 km west of Bundaberg) and the township grew rapidly. A railway to the coast was essential to provide cheap transport and make the mining of low ...
In October 2010 Downer Rail was awarded a contract to build a further diesel tilt train with two power cars and 12 carriages to replace locomotive hauled stock on The Sunlander. [43] [44] [45] The third and brand new set was delivered and entered service in 2014. The maximum speed of the Tilt Train in service is 160 km/h (99 mph). [46]
macOS. Raspberry Pi OS. License. Proprietary software. Website. wiki.rocrail.net. Rocrail is a freeware software package [1] for controlling a model train layout from one or more computers. Users can run trains directly from a computer, or have some run automatically with manual control for any others.