Night train route
The Westlander
Brisbane → Charleville · Australia
- Distance
- 777 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 17 h
- Average speed
- 46 km/h
- Top speed
- 80 km/h
- Operator
- Queensland Rail
- Train
- Loco-hauled night train
- Countries
- Australia
- In service since
- 1954
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Over the Toowoomba range by night and out across the Darling Downs: twice a week until the wheat gives way to mulga at Charleville.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 16272343 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 6 m); the longest stretch away from it is 6 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
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