news

Industry bid for QR coal sale

News

Fourteen Queensland coal producers who have united to try and force the state govern-ment to modify its planned sale of Queensland Rail have...

Rail projects gather steam

News

The global recession hit rail companies hard, as demand for bulk commodities such as coal was affected. But green shoots of recovery are now...

Grains of gloom

News

Australia is in the grip of what is predicted to be the worst drought ever, and certainly the harshest since 2002-03. The impact is already ...

QR rebrands bulk

News

Queensland Rail (QR) has rebranded its coal, bulk and general freight businesses under the name QRNational to reflect the organisation’s p...

Boom leads to bottlenecks

News

There is a general feeling in Australia that the current boom in coal and ore demand marks the start of a sustainable long-term trend. Confi...

QR coal boost

News

Queensland Rail has committed A$200m for the first phase of the upgrade of its coal locomotive fleet, which will include work on more than 1...

Coal king in Queensland

News

The Queensland Government has committed to further investment in Queensland Rail (QR) 's coal business after the organisation set yet anothe...

events