Scenic route
The Gulflander
Normanton → Croydon · Australia
The Gulflander in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 152 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 5 h
- Average speed
- 30 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Queensland Rail
- Train
- RM93 railmotor (1950)
- Countries
- Australia
- In service since
- 1891
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
“From nowhere to nowhere” once a week: the 1891 Gulf line’s hollow steel sleepers shrug off every wet-season flood; the old railmotor just keeps going.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4294791 — 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 2 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Queensland Rail — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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