{"id":9836,"date":"2024-02-09T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/?p=115284"},"modified":"2024-02-09T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T21:00:19","slug":"mount-isa-line-on-track-for-february-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=9836","title":{"rendered":"Mount Isa line on track for February reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><strong>The Mount Isa line from Nelia to Cloncurry is expected to reopen later this month, restoring the vital freight path between the towns.<\/strong><span id=\"more-115284\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queenslandrail.com.au\/\">Queensland Rail<\/a> (QR) Head of Regional Scott Cornish spoke about what the organisation is doing to get the line reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;A taskforce of 90 Queensland Rail employees and contractors have been stood up to recover the line in the wake of ex-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/update-on-cyclone-kirrily-in-queensland\/\">Tropical Cyclone Kirrily<\/a>,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Following the flood event, aerial inspections identified two kilometres of track requiring extensive repair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Due to the ongoing rainfall and wet ground conditions, crews needed to alter recovery plans to safely access the rail corridor,&#8221; Cornish said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">With the recovery now underway, the Mount Isa line is expected to reopen by late-February, subject to works not being hindered by further weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;We thank our passengers and freight customers for their patience as we work to restore the line and will continue to keep them informed of any updates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/mount-isa-line-on-track-for-february-reopening\/\">Mount Isa line on track for February reopening<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount Isa line from Nelia to Cloncurry is expected to reopen later this month, restoring the vital freight path \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/mount-isa-line-on-track-for-february-reopening\/\">Mount Isa line on track for February reopening<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9836","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9837,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9836\/revisions\/9837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}