10-year plan for Inland Rail project

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The Inland Rail project – a 1,700-kilometre rail freight line between Melbourne and Brisbane – will be built over 10 years at a cost of $10 billion, Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss has announced.

The Australian government has received the final report of the Inland Rail Implementation Group which sets out the proposed timeframe and cost of the link, which will require 600 kilometres of new railway.

Inland Rail will initially support 1,800-metre, double-stacked trains. The line, which will reduce the journey time between Melbourne and Brisbane by 10 hours, could eventually accommodate 3,600-metre trains.

Significantly, Inland Rail will mean trains from south east Queensland will be able to reach Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth without going through Sydney.

“The project will create up to 16,000 direct jobs during a 10-year construction period and a regular 600 jobs once operating,” said Truss.

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  1. How come that a PROFESSIONAL media like this one illustrates a text about a new Australian line with a picture from Russia? The editor knows nothing about modern railways?

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