{"id":250538,"date":"2025-07-13T11:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=250538"},"modified":"2025-07-13T11:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:31:37","slug":"rail-spur-to-new-grain-terminal-at-north-shore-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=250538","title":{"rendered":"Rail spur to new grain terminal at North Shore imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Works to connect a new grain terminal at North Shore (near Geelong) are imminent and final planning is underway for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=250532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Freight upgrade planned for Tocumwal\">similar project to follow at Tocumwal<\/a>, which will further increase volumes of grain moved by rail to port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">V\/Line<\/a> leased 10 N-Class locomotives to a private freight operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssr.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Southern Shorthaul Railroad<\/a> on a long-term agreement and they are now hauling freight across network to support the significant growth in grain and intermodal haulage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional locomotives will enter lease arrangements later in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>final planning is underway for a similar project to follow at Tocumwal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":64140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,186],"tags":[4598,993,17421,8],"class_list":["post-250538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-geelong","tag-melbourne","tag-north-shore","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250542,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250538\/revisions\/250542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}