Redcliffe Peninsula railway line
| Redcliffe Peninsula line | |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Commuter Rail |
| Status | Open |
| Locale | Murrumba Downs, Queensland, Australia |
| Termini | Petrie Station Kippa Ring Station |
| Stations | 6 |
| Colour on map | 1e90ff |
| Website | queenslandrail.com.au |
| Operation | |
| Opened | 4 October 2016 |
| Owner | Queensland Rail |
| Operator(s) | Queensland Rail |
| Technical | |
| Line length | 13 km (8.1 mi) |
| Number of tracks | 2 |
| Track gauge | 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) |
| Operating speed | 100 km/h (62 mph) |
The Redcliffe Peninsula line is a 12 km stretch of heavy gauge dual-track railway between Petrie and Kippa-Ring on the Redcliffe peninsula. The new line is part of the QR Citytrain suburban network, branching from the Caboolture line. It starts 200 metres north of Petrie railway station, extending from (27.5 km (17.1 mi) to 40.1 km (24.9 mi) north of Central railway station).
The line has six stations: Kallangur, Murrumba Downs, Mango Hill, Mango Hill East (previously called Kinsellas Road), Rothwell and Kippa-Ring. Funding for the project consisted of $742 million from the Commonwealth Government, $300 million from the Queensland Government (plus another $120 million for land) and $105 million from the Moreton Bay Regional Council.
The line was officially opened on 3 October 2016, about 130 years after it was first proposed. The first train to depart from Kippa-Ring at 3:46am was SMU (295) & (296), with 50 people on board for the historic trip.
A rail line to Redcliffe was first proposed in 1895 when the Queensland Government's Minister for Railways, the Hon. Robert Philp, considered three proposals, preferring a route via North Pine (Petrie). In more recent times, the route for a Redcliffe railway was identified in the 1970s, and the required land was purchased and preserved as a transport corridor by the state government in the 1980s. The issue of the proposed railway line seemed to be a recurrent theme during state elections, leading to scepticism the line would ever be constructed.
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