Classic route
Electric Tilt Train
Brisbane → Rockhampton · Australia
- Distance
- 639 km
- Fastest time
- 8 h 5 min
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Queensland Rail Travel
- Train
- Electric Tilt Train (City of Rockhampton)
- Countries
- Australia
- In service since
- 1998
- Runs
- 7–8× weekly each way
The world’s fastest narrow-gauge train — it set Australia’s rail speed record of 210 km/h in 1999 and still tilts through cane country at 160 km/h.
Queensland’s electric tilt sets are the fastest trains ever to run on 1,067 mm gauge, holding Australia’s rail speed record of 210 km/h from a 1999 trial near Bundaberg. In revenue service they lean through the North Coast line’s curves at 160 km/h, past the Glass House Mountains, Gympie’s hills and endless sugar cane. Eight hours from Roma Street the train eases into Rockhampton, the beef capital sitting on the Tropic of Capricorn.
Along the way
- Glass House Mountains
- Gympie’s Mary Valley hills
- Bundaberg cane fields
- Burnett River crossing
- Gladstone harbour
- Tropic of Capricorn at Rockhampton
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