Night train route
The Inlander
Townsville → Mount Isa · Australia
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Queensland’s grand old night train since 1953. Coral Sea to Cloncurry’s red plains and the smokestacks of Mount Isa, 977 unhurried kilometres.
Stations
- 0 kmTownsville
- 139 kmCharters Towers
- 245 kmPentland
- 298 kmTorrens Creek
- 387 kmHughenden
- 501 kmRichmond
- 648 kmJulia Creek
- 779 kmCloncurry
- 888 kmDuchess
- 976 kmMount Isa
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 16276539 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 27 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.7% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 7 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- 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
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is The Inlander?
The Inlander runs 977 km from Townsville to Mount Isa.
How long does The Inlander take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 21 h for the 977 km. That is an average of 47 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 80 km/h.
Who runs The Inlander?
Queensland Rail, with Loco-hauled outback train.
How old is The Inlander?
The line has been in service since 1953. 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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