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The Southern railway line serves the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The 197-kilometre (122 mi) long line branches from the Western line at Toowoomba, 161 kilometres (100 mi) west of Brisbane, and proceeds south through Warwick and Stanthorpe to the New South Wales/Queensland state border at Wallangarra. [1]
Harristown is a residential locality in Toowoomba in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census , Harristown had a population of 9,081 people. [ 1 ]
In Queensland, Australia, public bus services are coordinated by the Queensland Government's Department of Transport and Main Roads and provided by over 1000 operators. The coordination of public bus transport generally falls under three schemes: Translink services, QConnect services and the remaining rural/regional school services. Some ...
The current speed and load limits on various sections reflects the level of traffic on them. From Toowoomba to Roma the rail is 41 kg/m (83 lb/yd), 25-50% of the sleepers are steel, and the speed limit is 80 km/h (50 mph), 70 km/h (43 mph) west of Miles and for coal trains east of there, with an axle load of 15.75 t (15.50 long tons; 17.36 short tons).
The Queensland Government devolved Translink from being a division of Queensland Transport to the more autonomous Translink Transit Authority in July 2008, increasing its profile with new branding. At the same time a 24 hours a day, seven days a week customer information and support phone number was introduced. [10] [11]
The Toowoomba Athol Road is a 17.1 km (10.6 mi) former section of the Gore Highway that runs south-west from the city of Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia. With the opening of the Toowoomba Bypass in 2019 the Gore Highway was redirected to part of it, and the bypassed section of the highway was renamed Toowoomba Athol Road and assigned the ...
The concrete surfaced masonry consists of 30 ft (9.1 m) arches, the centre one being 50 ft (15 m) high (Description supplied with photograph) QR heritage loco A10 no. 6 on the Toowoomba Range ~1990 This train is the maximum load an A10 class can haul up the 1 in 50 grades of the Main Line Train descending the Main Line ~1880 McKeen rail motor ...
TMR was formed in April 2009 by merging Queensland Transport and the Department of Main Roads. [1] TMR manages Queensland's 33,000 km state road network, which includes 3,100 bridges. TMR also oversees most public transport services throughout the state, which it does through its agency Translink. TMR employs more than 10,000 people, [1] and ...