It’s hardly surprising with the ever-increasing rise of fuel prices that more and more talk is starting to be heard about the prospect of new rail links being constructed in various parts of Australia’s more isolated areas. You would have to think that there would be major obstacles with any rail line proposal considering the land issues involved with taking up over a thousand kilometres to stick railway tracks in, so the following two projects would have to be years away.
A new rail link has been proposed between Toowoomba in Queensland and Moree in New South Wales to speed up the shipping of goods between Melbourne and Brisbane by bypassing the more congested Sydney connection.
Another railway line, this one from the north-west Queensland city of Mount Isa to Tennant Creek, which is a distance of around 600km. This particular line would meet up with the north-south line running from Adelaide – Alice Springs – Darwin and would enable ore freight to be moved to a wider spread of ports from the town of Mount Isa. It sounds as though the people of Mount Isa are fully in favour of running the line towards Darwin, now it’s just up to the government to agree to the two plans.
At the centre of both of these projects is Australian Transport and Energy Corridor Ltd, a company that appears to be coming up with plenty of solutions when it comes to alternative goods haulage around Australia.
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