Railways in South East Queensland

Railways in South East Queensland
NGR 710 at Yeronga in 2018.
Overview
Owner	Queensland Rail
Area served	South East Queensland
Locale	Brisbane
Transit type	Suburban rail
Number of lines	12
Number of stations	154 plus 3 under construction
Annual ridership	42.86 million (FY22/23)
Chief executive	Katarzyna Stapleton
Headquarters	Brisbane
Website	queenslandrail.com.au
Operation
Began operation	1865 (1865)
Operator(s)	Queensland Rail
Technical
System length	689 km (428 mi)
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification	25 kV 50 Hz AC overhead lines
Top speed	140 km/h (87 mph)

v t e SEQ Rail network
Legend
Zone km km Zone 6  Varsity Lakes  89.4 5 Robina 85.3 Nerang 75.9 5 Helensvale 68.2 4 Coomera 56.5   4 Ormeau 52.7   3  Beenleigh  40.1   Holmview 39.1   Edens Landing 36.9   Bethania 35.2   Loganlea 32.2   Kingston 29.5 57.0  Rosewood    Thorneside 27.8 52.7 Thagoona 4 Woodridge 26.8 48.5 Walloon 3 Trinder Park 25.8 43.9 Karrabin Kuraby 22.5 41.6 Wulkuraka Fruitgrove 21.2 40.1 Thomas Street Runcorn 19.8 38.6  Ipswich  Altandi 18.6 37.0 East Ipswich Sunnybank 17.6 35.5 Booval Banoon 16.7 34.1 Bundamba Coopers Plains 15.2 32.2 Ebbw Vale Salisbury 13.0 30.8 Dinmore Rocklea 11.6 29.2 Riverview Moorooka 10.6 26.8 Redbank 3 2  Cleveland  37.3 23.5 Goodna   Ormiston 35.6 21.6 Gailes   3 2 Wellington Point 32.9 20.0 Wacol     Birkdale 30.6 Springfield Central     Thorneside 27.8 Springfield     Lota 25.9 Richlands     Manly 24.1     Wynnum Central 22.4 16.0 Darra     Wynnum 21.7 13.3 Oxley     Wynnum North 20.8 11.6 Corinda     Lindum 19.2 10.4 Tennyson     Hemmant 17.4 10.7 Sherwood   2 1 Murarrie 14.3 9.5 Graceville 2 1 Cannon Hill 12.6 8.5 Chelmer Morningside 10.5 9.3 Yeerongpilly Norman Park 09.1 8.5 Yeronga Coorparoo 07.9 7.1 Fairfield Buranda 06.2 5.9 Dutton Park 7.4 Indooroopilly Park Road 05.1 6.0 Taringa South Bank 03.5 04.5 Toowong South Brisbane 02.6 3.5 Auchenflower 2.3 Milton Roma Street 00.8 3.4 Platforms 2 & 3 Central 00.0   3.6  Exhibition Platform 1 Fortitude Valley 01.3 Bowen Hills 02.7 Albion 04.5 4.5 Windsor Wooloowin 05.6 5.5 Wilston Eagle Junction 06.5 6.5 Newmarket Clayfield 07.4 8.0 Alderley Hendra 08.0 8.9 Enoggera Ascot 08.9 9.6 Gaythorne 1 2  Doomben  09.9 10.9 Mitchelton   12.0 Oxford Park   International Airport 14.4 12.7 Grovely    Domestic Airport  15.9 13.5 Keperra   Toombul 07.4 16.1  Ferny Grove    Nundah 08.7   1 2 Northgate 9.9     Bindha 11.4 11.2 Virginia     Banyo 12.1 12.4 Sunshine     Nudgee 13.1 13.4 Geebung     Boondall 16.0 14.9 Zillmere     North Boondall 17.2 16.6 Carseldine     Deagon 18.4 20.0 Bald Hills     Sandgate 19.4 22.4 Strathpine   2  Shorncliffe  20.7 23.8 Bray Park   25.8 Lawnton 2 3 27.4 Petrie 3 Kallangur 29.9 32.1 Dakabin Murrumba Downs 31.1 35.6 Narangba Mango Hill 32.9 40.4 Burpengary Mango Hill East 34.6 46.4 Morayfield Rothwell 36.2 49.6  Caboolture  3 3  Kippa-Ring  40.1 58.6 Elimbah 4 64.6 Beerburrum   71.8 Glasshouse Mountains 4 76.9 Beerwah 5 82.5 Landsborough 87.5 Mooloolah 92.7 Eudlo 5 97.3 Palmwoods 6 100.7 Woombye   104.8  Nambour  6 112.7 Yandina 7 122.5 Eumundi 7 130.9 Cooroy 8 139.9 Pomona   145.5 Cooran   150.3 Traveston   172.2  Gympie North  8
Airport line Gold Coast line Beenleigh line Ipswich and Rosewood line Caboolture line Redcliffe Peninsula line Cleveland line Shorncliffe line Doomben line Springfield line Exhibition line Sunshine Coast line Ferny Grove line Tennyson line multiple lines detrain first 1 or 3 cars only
♿ All stations are accessible except Ascot, Bindha, Bundamba, Dinmore, Exhibition, Fairfield, Gailes, Graceville, Hemmant, Lindum, Moorooka, Newmarket, North Boondall, Riverview, Rocklea, Salisbury, Sherwood, Taringa, Thomas Street, Traveston, Trinder Park, Wacol Wilston, Yandina, and Yeronga. Limited service between Nambour and Gympie North: 2 trains/day.

Railways in South East Queensland consist of a large passenger and freight rail network centred on Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. Suburban and interurban passenger rail services are operated by Queensland Rail, which also operates long-distance services connecting Brisbane to the rest of the state. Aurizon and Pacific National are private companies which operate freight services. The passenger rail network in South East Queensland is known as the Citytrain network.^[1]

Queensland Rail operates ten suburban and two interurban lines in South East Queensland, all of which are electrified. Centred in the Brisbane central business district, the network extends as far as Gympie in the north, Varsity Lakes in the south, Rosewood in the west, and Cleveland in the east to Moreton Bay.^[2]

Each line is ascribed a colour and name on all Queensland Rail signage and marketing collateral including timetables, posters and maps. There are 153 stations on the South East Queensland rail network. Queensland Rail refers to the network by two different names, either as the 'South East Queensland (SEQ) network'^[3] or the 'Citytrain network'.^[4][5] Rail services and ticketing are co-ordinated by the Queensland government agency Translink.

Queensland Rail’s trains had 42.86 million boardings in the 2022–23 financial year, giving the SEQ rail network the fourth highest patronage out of Australia's suburban rail networks, behind that of Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.^[6][7]