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Cover coal storages and wagons, says QCC
Brisbane :: Australia | over 2 years ago
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Story continues below "It's clear that any coal dust coming out of the trains will have a detrimental effect on air quality and local environments," QCC executive director Toby Hutcheon said. "All coal wagons need to be covered to avoid that coal
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Great railway float feels more like a lead balloon
Sydney :: Australia | over 2 years ago
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Story continues below T he Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh, desperately hoping she can end the week as The Little Engine That Could, has begun throwing everything she has to push that load up an ever-increasing incline. With just a few days to go
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Train drivers rocked by stone throwers
Brisbane :: Australia | over 2 years ago
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We're just doing our job every day and we don't want to risk us getting hurt, or the passengers getting hurt."...Queensland Rail works closely with the state police to crack down on rock throwers, according to QR. Senior sergeant Stephen Vick, a
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Tender tease for Downer as it wins QR train deal
Toronto :: Canada | over 2 years ago
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Story continues below The Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh, said the new trains would be able to run at speeds of up to 160km/h, cutting five hours off the travel time of the old Sunlander. The two high-speed tilt-trains will be built at Downer's
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Qld's Sunlander train for luxury makeover
Brisbane :: Australia | over 2 years ago
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The Queensland government will invest $189 million to buy another tilt train and upgrade the existing two, Ms Bligh told parliament on Wednesday. Providing the fastest rail service in Australia, running at up to 160km/h, the tilt trains will cut five
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Is QR worth the freight?
Mumbai :: India | over 2 years ago
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Story continues below Since the whole caboose, whoops I mean caboodle, of train and tracks is being privatised, here's hoping the share price can muster up a faster clip...The freight section of Queensland Rail has been spruced up into a $7 billion
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Qld coal rail competition plan okayed
Sydney :: Australia | over 2 years ago
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Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser told state parliament on Thursday that the Queensland Competition Authority had approved QR National's Rail Access Undertaking. "One only has to look at the market share of QR National and its competitor to see that
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Storm warnings for southeast Qld
Brisbane :: Australia | over 2 years ago
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Emergency Management Queensland has urged residents to prepare for potentially damaging storms from Gladstone south to the Gold Coast on Tuesday afternoon. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said severe thunderstorms were likely to produce very heavy
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QR float still on track
Perth :: Australia | almost 3 years ago
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Rail's freight arm, QR National, continues to talk as though a float of its integrated operations is a certainty, despite an alternative offer from coal miners that is already on the table. In a move to broaden its appeal outside its home state, QR
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Govt still pursuing IPO for rail network
Sydney :: Australia | almost 3 years ago
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Treasurer Andrew Fraser has refused to comment on a report in The Australian Financial Review which said the consortium had upped its offer for the rail lines by $200 million, to just over $5 billion. The government's planned float would include
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