Rail Provisioning Yard
Located in our office buildings are our operations and maintenance personnel. Our team operates from these buildings 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to ensure our crew have the support that they need.
CloseMaintaining trains requires a number of inventory spares and lubricants - our storage has been securely established to ensure we can effectively continue to run our trains at maximum efficiency.
CloseThe provisioning line provides access for our trains, enabling our team to provision and complete maintenance prior to a train departing for its next cycle. Provisioning includes fuel, sand, water, engine oil and train checks.
CloseThe shunting and storage line allows our yard to hold additional train sets when they come in for maintenance. This line also enables our team to complete shunting activities for both wagons and locomotives.
CloseThe maintenance line is where both locomotives and wagons are delivered. This allows our maintenance team to complete more extensive maintenance and inspections, in accordance with our maintenance cycles.
CloseOur wagons require maintenance and as such on occasion we remove them for service. This allows our maintainers to complete servicing activities quickly and efficiently.
CloseThe third-party network is our mainline access enabling our trains to head back to train loadout for loading once they have completed their maintenance.
CloseThe rail service track enables our maintenance, operations, infrastructure and signaling teams to gain access to our trains and railway.
CloseOur locomotives require maintenance and as such on occasion we remove them from the track to allow our maintainers to complete servicing activities.
CloseLocated in our office buildings are our operations and maintenance personnel. Our team operates from these buildings 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to ensure our crew have the support that they need.
Maintaining trains requires a number of inventory spares and lubricants - our storage has been securely established to ensure we can effectively continue to run our trains at maximum efficiency.
The provisioning line provides access for our trains, enabling our team to provision and complete maintenance prior to a train departing for its next cycle. Provisioning includes fuel, sand, water, engine oil and train checks.
The shunting and storage line allows our yard to hold additional train sets when they come in for maintenance. This line also enables our team to complete shunting activities for both wagons and locomotives.
The maintenance line is where both locomotives and wagons are delivered. This allows our maintenance team to complete more extensive maintenance and inspections, in accordance with our maintenance cycles.
Our wagons require maintenance and as such on occasion we remove them for service. This allows our maintainers to complete servicing activities quickly and efficiently.
The third-party network is our mainline access enabling our trains to head back to train loadout for loading once they have completed their maintenance.
The rail service track enables our maintenance, operations, infrastructure and signaling teams to gain access to our trains and railway.
Our locomotives require maintenance and as such on occasion we remove them from the track to allow our maintainers to complete servicing activities.
The approximately 200km Carmichael Rail Network safely and efficiently connects Queensland’s high-quality exports to the world through the North Queensland Export Terminal.
What we do
The Carmichael Rail Network is a critical link between Queensland’s rich coal resources in the Galilee Basin and Australia’s most northerly coal export port. The 200km narrow gauge railway connects with Aurizon’s Newlands Rail System that runs through to the North Queensland Export Terminal.
The Network
Our next-generation train fleet operates on the network to service our foundation customer, the Carmichael mine, providing a true pit-to-port service. The Carmichael Rail Network is designed to take 26.5 tonne axle load locomotives, which operate at a maximum speed of 100km/hr. The Network is constructed to meet the demands of its foundation customer and is designed to be able to incrementally expand if required.
The approximately 200-kilometre Carmichael Rail Network joins into the existing rail network near Collinsville in central Queensland.
An average of six Bowen Rail Company trains run on the Carmichael Rail Network each day. One round trip from the Carmichael mine to the North Queensland Export Terminal will take approximately 24 hours including loading and unloading time.
Building a new rail network
The Carmichael Rail Network took two years to build and began operation in 2022. It includes 319,000 Australian-made concrete sleepers and approximately 26,000 tonnes of Australian-made steel rail, 25 bridges and waterway crossings, two passing loops and 460 culverts.
Coal haulage in the Galilee Basin
The 247,000 square kilometre Galilee Basin is a large thermal coal basin in central Queensland. It is located about 200km west of the Bowen Basin, and extends north past Hughenden, south to Charleville and west beyond Winton and Middleton.
Bravus Mining and Resources’ Carmichael Mine was the first mine to be developed in the Galilee Basin, and produces in the order of 10 million tonnes per annum of high-quality coal that is used to generate affordable and reliable electricity for communities in India and South-East Asia. Coal is railed 200kms along the Carmichael Rail line and a further 100km along existing rail infrastructure to the North Queensland Export Terminal, 25kms north of Bowen.
The 247,000 square kilometre Galilee Basin is a thermal coal basin in central Queensland located about 200km west of the Bowen Basin
Our coal haulage operations in the Galilee Basin are safe, environmentally responsible and efficient as we combine world-leading technology with clever solutions to create world class operations.
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