Night train route
Spirit of the Outback
Brisbane → Longreach · Australia
Spirit of the Outback in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,325 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 25 h
- Average speed
- 53 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Queensland Rail
- Train
- Loco-hauled sleeper, Tuckerbox diner
- Countries
- Australia
- In service since
- 1993
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Up the coast to Rockhampton, then dead west into Matilda country: sleepers and the Tuckerbox diner, 1,325 km to the stockman’s capital.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 16270923 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 50 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 14 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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