Anyone know what the incident at Cultural Center was tonight?
Saw a backup of about two buses behind a metro with its lights flashing and what appeared to be a police car on the bridge and at the busway station. Apologies for the horrendous photo quality
Queensland Rail website seems to have updated with a few more third-party led closures from Boggo Road to Banoon-Cleveland in the coming months… why does it have to be all the way to Cleveland? What could they possibly be doing for a third party all the way to there. sigh
Wasn’t it usually Cannon Hill CRR closed that line to?
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Yet the Translink notice for this closure says:
What works are happening?
- General track maintenance
I wonder if both CRR works and QR maintenance might be happening in different parts of the closure?
Interesting. I wonder what they could be as Cleveland already had a closure between Manly-Cleveland over the summer to restore the bridge and maintennace out this way.
What could possibly be closing it to Cleveland this time? Also interesting to see if that’s the same reason for the whole line closures during May (beginning to understand what it means to be a Gold Coast line user)
There’s also a couple similar for the Gold Coast line listing closures for ‘third-party led work’ between Boggo Road and Varsity Lakes…
They could legitimately be for CRR works, as the new Gold Coast line stations are part of the CRR project. I guess they thought it not worth the bother to just run trains between Beenleigh and Banoon.
They’re getting bolder with their closures. Four-day inner city WEEKDAY track closure.
- Start: First service Tuesday 7 April
- End: Last service Friday 10 April
- Affected lines:
- Airport, Beenleigh, Caboolture, Doomben, Gold Coast, Redcliffe Peninsula, Shorncliffe and Sunshine Coast lines will be impacted by track closures
- All lines will have timetable changes
- Next normal service: These lines will continue to be impacted by the April extended track closures.
Please consider your transport options, allow extra travel time and plan ahead closer to the date.
Also, interesting that they can run trains via Tennyson (as seen during the late-night closure) so they choose not to for weekend ones:
Track closure in brief
- Dates:
- Monday 16 March
- Tuesday 17 March
- Start: 9:30pm each night
- End: Last service each night
- Affected lines: Beenleigh, Cleveland and Gold Coast
- Next normal service: First train the next morning
View map of closure.Travel information
Beenleigh and Gold Coast line trains
Trains will run express via the Tennyson loop between Roma Street and:
- Rocklea on the Beenleigh line
- Altandi on the Gold Coast line.
For some reason the metro buses aren’t using the Adelaide Street tunnel this arvo. Was on the M2 and it went via the QSBS tunnel RBH bound instead.
This morning was also chaos with long waits for a Metro bus from RBWH. I ended up getting any bus to Roma Street and changing there.
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I believe it depends on whether the posession is for Clapham Yard’s construction. It seems like there’s quite a bit of track reconfiguration and signalling works which needs to occur for the new yard unfortunately.
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Quite a mess on the Beenleigh & Gold Coast lines this afternoon, due to a signalling issue. It seems that southbound Beenleigh trains are terminating at Kuraby, and Gold Coast trains are stopping all stations between Kuraby and Varsity Lakes.
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