Classic route
Gold Coast line
Varsity Lakes → Brisbane · Australia
The Gold Coast’s railway to Brisbane: a new line opened in 1996 and extended to Varsity Lakes in 2009, by Robina, Nerang and Helensvale to Roma Street.
- Distance
- 89 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 23 min
- Average speed
- 64 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmVarsity Lakes
- 4 kmRobina
- 13 kmNerang
- 21 kmHelensvale
- 26 kmHope Island
- 29 kmCoomera
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- 34 kmPimpama
- 36 kmOrmeau
- 49 kmBeenleigh
- 58 kmLoganlea
- 71 kmAltandi
- 85 kmBoggo Road
- 86 kmSouth Bank
- 87 kmSouth Brisbane
- 89 kmRoma Street +5
The stations this train called at in the operator’s timetable (Queensland Rail, the Gold Coast line on 28 November 2026), in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Other runs of the train may skip some of them, and the timetable can change. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 13916115: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 6 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Queensland Rail: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of the Varsity Lakes–Brisbane City train
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Gold Coast line?
The Gold Coast line runs 89 km from Varsity Lakes to Brisbane.
How long does the Gold Coast line take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 1 h 23 min for the 89 km. That is an average of 64 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Gold Coast line?
Queensland Rail, with New Generation Rollingstock.
How old is the Gold Coast line?
The line has been in service since 2009. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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