Night train route
Brisbane XPT
Sydney → Brisbane · Australia
Brisbane XPT in pictures
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- Distance
- 988 km
- Fastest time
- 14 h
- Average speed
- 71 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- NSW TrainLink
- Train
- XPT (HST derivative)
- Countries
- Australia
- In service since
- 1990
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The overnight run still books twin sleepers as it corkscrews through the Border Loop spiral, blasted through rainforest ranges in 1932.
How this line was checked
- The 787 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 16305120 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 110 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 95.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 44 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of T1
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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All sleepers serving these cities: night trains from Sydney · night trains from Brisbane · all 108 night trains.
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