Specifications - Queensland High-Speed Line (Tilting Trains), Australia
| Queensland, Australia, high-speed line | |
| System | |
| Operator | queensland Rail |
| opening date | 1998-2001 |
| route length | (Brisbane-Rockhampton) 639 km |
| (Brisbane-Cairns) 1,681 km | |
| maximum line speed | 170 km/h |
| Gauge | 1067 mm |
| Electrification | |
| Voltage | 25kV |
| Current | ac overhead |
| rolling stock | |
| Type | electric tilting trains |
| Builder | evans deakin Industries, australia and Hitachi, Japan |
| fleet total | Two |
| build date | 1997-present |
| trainset power | 3040 kW |
| first class seats/train | 30 |
| second class seats/train | 280 |
| Type | diesel locomotive |
| Builder | Goninan |
| fleet total | 40 |
| new order | 10 |
| special characteristics | |
| journey times halved with new trains | |
| High-speed services integrated with heavy freight traffic | |
| tilting trains designed to run on existing tracks first tilting trains in the southern Hemisphere | |
| new trains are world's fastest 'narrow' gauge rail vehicles | |
| infrastructure improvements also speeds up freight services | |
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