Double stacked trains.
Key rail facts
The 1700 kilometre railway line is the largest freight rail infrastructure project in Australia.
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Building Inland Rail will reduce costs, create jobs, take trucks off our roads and make businesses and producers more competitive.
- Inland Rail will offer a transit time between Melbourne to Brisbane less than 24 hours with 98 per cent reliability.
- The Australian Government has committed $9.3 billion to develop and build Inland Rail. Additional funds will come from a partnership with the private sector.
- The project will create 16,000 jobs during the peak of construction, with an additional 700 on-going jobs once operational.
- It will increase gross domestic product (GDP) by $16 billion during the 10-year delivery period, and the first 50 years of operation.
- Inland Rail has been divided into 13 distinct projects during construction.
- 70 per cent of Inland Rail will use existing rail infrastructure
- The first train is expected to run in 2024-25. Trains will be double stacked and up to 1800m long.
- 262,000 tonnes of steel and 745,000 cubic metres of concrete to build the railway.
- Largest diameter diesel freight tunnel in the Southern Hemisphere
- More than 3100 meetings held with stakeholders, including councils and landowners, since 2016.