Currently Brisbane River ferry services are not running. Redlands Bay is also experiencing bus cancellations due to driver shortages.
Queensland Rail is strategically placing essential materials around the network in anticipation for track damage. At present, trains are running to a usual timetable.
Stay safe out there everyone!
Last updated: 1pm Wednesday 5 March
There are major impacts to our network as a result of Tropical Cyclone Alfred and expected severe weather.
From Thursday 6 March until further notice, all services in South East Queensland will be cancelled.
Services will continue running through until last service tonight. Planned cancellations for today are shown below, however there may be additional cancellations as weather changes.
Please reconsider your need to travel. If you do need to travel, please travel early, plan ahead and stay safe.
Stay up to date with the latest travel and disruption info via our service updates page.
Bus
Some buses running to and from the Redlands region have been cancelled.
All route Tx7 services running between Helensvale station and Coomera station have been cancelled.
Ferries
Brisbane River ferries and Southern Moreton Bay Island ferries are not running until further notice.
Bus
All bus services (including school buses) operated in the following council areas will be cancelled:
Brisbane (Brisbane City Council Buses)
Gold Coast (Kinetic Gold Coast)
Ipswich (Westside Bus Lines)
Kilcoy (Christenson’s Bus and Coach)
Lockyer Valley (Bus Queensland)
Logan (Clarks Logan City, Park Ridge Transit)
Moreton Bay (Hornibrook Buslines, Thompsons Bus Services, Kangaroo Bus Lines, Caboolture Bus Lines)
Noosa (Kinetic Sunshine Coast)
Redlands (Mount Gravatt Coach and Travel, Transdev Queensland)
Sunshine Coast (Kinetic Sunshine Coast, Glasshouse Country Coaches)
Toowoomba (Bus Queensland)
Trains
Trains will not run.
Ferries
Brisbane River ferries and Southern Moreton Bay Island ferries will not run.
Trams
Trams will not run.
Makes sense due wind and flooding.
A little odd that services in Toowoomba have been cancelled, as they are outside the warning zone, and Gympie hasn’t, but they are inside the warning zone.
I assume that it’s the potential flood risk. Getting drivers to and from work and the potential impact, affecting on time reliability during a heavy rain event, which now is likely to occur from late tonight onwards.
Remember the amount of water that came down from Toowoomba from a tropical low and flooded the Lockyer Valley.
Somewhat tangential but I can see Mayne yard out of my window and QR has almost completely emptied it out. Here’s a photo from a normal weekday Friday vs just now.
Obviously there hasn’t been the standard peak hour rush in, but this makes me wonder - where have they moved all the rolling stock to? This is the emptiest I’ve ever seen it, and I was under the impression they didn’t have much in the way of spare stabling capacity
Since the network isn’t running, they can just stable them at stations (this occurred during the 2022 floods). I’m not sure if this is the case this time around. Perhaps someone else can confirm/deny?
Supermarkets had staffing problems today due to no PT and some have closed early.
I was lucky I had my bike to get to the gym.
I also noticed that Neuron and Lime pulled all their hire mobility off the streets too.
From memory, they put quite a few trains along the Ferny Grove line to avoid flooding, because IIRC, it’s the highest elevation line in the SEQ network. I guess there are other places, too, but I’m sure they’ll put them in areas that are less likely to flood.
QR will store trains wherever they can on the running lines if needed. They won’t be as secure from vandals unfortunately, but they will be out of any floodwater.
All service in SEQ (inclduing Toowoomba, but not including Gympie) are cancelled until further notice.
Saturday services cancelled confirmed an hour ago
Re Train stabbing:
They can store a lot of NGRs at Wulkuraka.
Hopefully, PT will start running again tomorrow.
In addition to creek flooding, I was just thinking as well that they may not restart PT fully unless they get all the traffic signals up and running in most areas.
Updated
From tomorrow
Local services in Queensland – what’s working?
In terms of life returning to normal in Queensland, here’s what Premier David Crisafulli just outlined:
Buses: Normal Sunday timetables for Brisbane, Ipswich, Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast, and Moreton Bay (excluding Bribie Island), and limited returns for Logan and Caboolture. No buses on the Gold Coast. Check the MyTranslink app from 6pm tonight.
Trains: Unavailable Sunday, debris needs to be cleared from the tracks.
Supermarkets: Some reopened today, more to open tomorrow.
Ferry: Limited ferry services to Moreton Bay from tomorrow.
Traffic lights: Fifty restored today, but around 50 per cent remain out on the Gold Coast and 16 per cent in Brisbane.
(Darling, 2025)
Tropical Cyclone Alfred service impacts | Translink
On Sunday 9 March, public transport will be gradually coming back online after major impacts due to Tropical Cyclone Alfred.
Some services will remain offline while our crews can undertake critical repairs and clean-up work while there are ongoing impacts due to localised flooding, road closures and staff availability.
We thank you for your patience while we work to safely return the network to service.
Buses: Most buses will return to service except for the Gold Coast and parts of Logan and Redlands.
Trains: Trains will remain suspended.
Ferries:
Trams: Trams will remain suspended.
You can plan your journey for tomorrow using our journey planner and setting the date to Sunday 9 March.
Translink was just on the radio and they said to use the website rather than the app for updated information. They said how the app is currently designed it’s difficult to override scheduled services.
Buses are suspended again due to wide spread flooding.
We need a robust weather proof PT network in the city.
More elevated and underground sections!!!
If they extend the busway from UQ to Indooroopilly and from Kedron Chermside we could have a more resilient inner core network.
Due to severe overnight weather, we’re assessing network conditions and have received some cancellations for today.
Some buses are running to a regular Sunday timetable, while many services are running with diversions or disruptions due to localised flooding or damage where roads are impacted.
Please note that the journey planner won’t be correct so please keep checking our service updates page.
We thank you for your patience while we work to return the network to service.
| Area | Services |
|---|---|
| Brisbane | Brisbane (Brisbane City Council buses) have suspended all services due to flooding and weather impacts |
| Gold Coast | No services |
| Ipswich | Regular Sunday services |
| Kilcoy | Services don’t run on Sundays |
| Lockyer Valley | No services |
| Logan | Regular Sunday services. No services on Clarks Logan City Bus Services |
| Moreton Bay | Regular Sunday services. No services on Hornibook Busline services. No services on Thompsons Bus Services |
| Mt Tamborine | Services don’t run on Sundays |
| Redlands | No services |
| Sunshine Coast | Regular Sunday services |
| Toowoomba | No services |
Our crews have been out inspecting our 850km of track in SEQ and repairing the network following Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred to safely restore services as soon as possible.
From tomorrow morning (Monday, 10 March), trains will be back on track, running a modified Sunday timetable across the below lines:
Sunshine Coast line open Central to Northgate
Ferny Grove line open Central to Ferny Grove
Airport line open Central to Airport
Beenleigh line open Central to Kuraby
Springfield line open Central to Springfield Central
Ipswich line open Central to Bundamba
Rosewood line open Ipswich to Rosewood
Due to significant damage and power outages, the remainder of the network will remain closed to allow our crews to continue major repair works.
Safety remains our top priority, and we will reopen the rest of our network when it is safe to do so.
Stay tuned and keep checking our social media and Translink Journey Planner for the latest updates.
