Geelong broad gauge freight
Sunday 10 March 2024
Miscellaneous Pacific National broad gauge freight around Geelong - there is stuff all these days
Pacific National Warrnambool freight
Sunday 10 March 2024
The Warrnambool freight carries containers between Melbourne and the Westvic depot in Warrnambool, usually running Monday through Friday. Operated by Pacific National, except for a period between April and October 2008 when El Zorro took over the contract. The train length is constrained by short crossing loops and often runs during the day on the down trip due to pathing issues beyond Geelong
Southern Shorthaul Railroad Victorian standard gauge grain
Sunday 10 March 2024
In August 2017 Southern Shorthaul Railroad commenced operating grain trains on the standard gauge in Victoria.
Pacific National - Melbourne standard gauge freight
Sunday 10 March 2024
Pacific National standard gauge intermodal services from Adelaide and New South Wales meet at Melbourne, running via the western suburbs into the Melbourne Freight Terminal at South Dynon.
Pacific National Long Island steel train
Saturday 9 March 2024
Until 2020 Pacific National operated the Long Island steel train to the BlueScope Steel mill at Hastings, south of Frankston. The steel is transferred from broad to standard gauge trains at the Melbourne Freight Terminal at South Dynon. In 2015 this facility replaced the Melbourne Steel Terminal, just west of North Melbourne station.
Qube Logistics interstate steel trains
Friday 8 March 2024
In December 2021 Qube Logistics commenced transporting BlueScope Steel products along the east coast, after winning a 10 year joint contract with SCT Logistics from Pacific National in 2020.
SCT Logistics - Melbourne/Brisbane services
Wednesday 6 March 2024
SCT Logistics started their Melbourne-Brisbane service in 2010 with SCT vans attached to Aurizon BM7/MB7 services. They started operating their own services between Melbourne and Barnawartha (outside Wodonga) in 2016, these services being extended through to Brisbane in 2017.
Qube shuttles at the Port of Melbourne
Sunday 3 March 2024
In November 2023 Qube Logistics started operating container shuttle trains between Swanson Dock West and Victoria Dock due to industrial action blocking access to the DP World container terminal.
Port of Melbourne
Sunday 3 March 2024
Trains and railway lines at Melbourne's Victoria, Appleton and Swanson Docks.
SCT Logistics - Dooen freight
Sunday 3 March 2024
SCT Logistics commenced running their Melbourne-Dooen freight service in 2015, which unlike their other trains operates to the Port of Melbourne and only carries container wagons - it doesn't stop at their Altona depot and conveys no boxvans.
Pacific National Tocumwal freight
Sunday 3 March 2024
Pacific National (formerly Patrick PortLink) operate a container service between Appleton Dock in Melbourne and Tocumwal, loading also being attached / removed at Mooroopna (Shepparton).
North Dynon
Sunday 3 March 2024
Located between the main passenger lines at South Kensington and Dynon Roads, along with Moonee Ponds Creek and the Maribyrnong River, the North Dynon precinct includes the Agents Sidings and the P&O Trans Australia container terminal at 'T' gate.
Southern Shorthaul Railroad works trains
Friday 15 December 2023
Since August 2019 Southern Shorthaul Railroad has been operating works trains on the Melbourne suburban rail network on behalf of Metro Trains Melbourne.
Qube Logistics 'hospital' train to Altona
Tuesday 10 October 2023
Qube Logistics operates an irregular 'hospital' train conveying standard gauge wagons to their maintenance facility in the former CRT yard at Altona North.
Qube Logistics Maryvale paper train
Wednesday 27 September 2023
Since June 2013 Qube Logistics has operated the Maryvale Paper train that runs from Melbourne to the Australian Paper factory at Maryvale, north of Morwell
SCT Logistics - Altona depot and light engine moves
Monday 7 August 2023
SCT Logistics got their start running east-west freight trains between Melbourne and Perth via Adelaide, running out of a depot at North Dynon. They now operate trains out of a much larger depot at Altona, running west to Perth as well as north to Brisbane.
Qube Logistics containerised cotton trains
Friday 4 August 2023
Qube Logistics operates containerised cotton trains from the Auscott Cotton processing plant at Nevertire in Northern NSW to Port Botany.
Pacific National Griffith freight
Friday 4 August 2023
Pacific National operates the standard gauge MC2/CM3 freight service from the Port of Melbourne to the NSW Riverina town of Griffith, with additional loading collected from Leeton and Bomen.
SCT Logistics - Sadleirs Logistics
Tuesday 1 August 2023
On 29 September 2021 SCT Logistics commenced providing rail services to Sadleirs Logistics.
Qube Logistics standard gauge grain
Tuesday 23 May 2023
Rail freight company Qube Logistics operates standard gauge grain trains across Victoria and New South Wales.
Qube Logistics broad gauge cement train
Friday 11 November 2022
In September 2019 Qube Logistics started a new containerised cement service running on broad gauge between North Dynon and the Kimberly Clark siding at Dandenong South. The loaded cement containers are brought down from New South Wales by train to Victoria Dock.
Qube Logistics standard gauge cement train
Thursday 27 October 2022
In April 2018 Qube Logistics started a new service conveying containerised cement between Sydney and Melbourne. The containers are loaded at a cement works in NSW and trucked to the Minto intermodal terminal Minto in Sydney, then railed to Victoria Dock in Melbourne, replacing the Berrima to Somerton cement train once operated by Pacific National.
Southern Shorthaul Railroad NSW grain trains
Wednesday 12 October 2022
Southern Shorthaul Railroad operates grain trains throughout New South Wales to both domestic customers and export terminals.
Qube Logistics Port Botany-Harefield freight
Wednesday 12 October 2022
Qube Logistics operates a train between Port Botany and Harefield in southern NSW conveying containerised paper products from the Visy paper mill at Tumut.
Pacific National - Main South freight
Wednesday 12 October 2022
Pacific National standard gauge intermodal freight services on the Main South line from Sydney towards the Victorian border at Albury.
Pacific National NSW grain trains
Tuesday 11 October 2022
Pacific National operates grain trains throughout New South Wales to both domestic customers and export terminals.
Pacific National ore trains
Tuesday 11 October 2022
Pacific National operates trains transporting containerised ore from mines across NSW to export terminals.
Pacific National Cripps Creek garbage train
Monday 10 October 2022
Since 2004 Pacific National runs garbage trains from Veolia's transfer stations at Clyde and Banksmeadow in metropolitan Sydney to the Cripps Creek intermodal terminal, outside Tarago in the Southern Highlands. From there the containerised rubbish is transferred to the Woodlawn Bioreactor, where the waste is placed in a former quarry to generate energy from landfill gas.
Pacific National limestone trains
Monday 10 October 2022
Pacifc National operates limestone trains from the quarry at South Marulan to Berrima and Maldon for the Boral cement works, Port Kembla for the BlueScope steelworks, and Moss Vale for Omya Australia.
Pacific National aggregate trains
Monday 10 October 2022
Pacifc National operates aggregate trains from quarries in the Southern Highlands at South Marulan and Lynwood to consumers around New South Wales.
Pacific National flour trains
Sunday 9 October 2022
Pacifc National operates flour trains for Manildra Group between their Bomaderry ethanol, starch and glucose processing plant; and their flour mills at Narrandera, Manildra and Gunnedah.
Pacific National Manildra freight
Thursday 6 October 2022
Pacific National operates a daily intermodal service for Manildra Group between their Bomaderry plant and Sydney.
Aurizon NSW coal trains
Thursday 6 October 2022
Aurizon operates both domestic and export coal trains across New South Wales.
Pacific National port shuttle trains
Wednesday 5 October 2022
Pacific National in conjunction with Rail Shuttle Services operates a port shuttle service between Port Botany and St Marys in Sydney's west.
Crawfords Freightlines
Wednesday 5 October 2022
Crawfords Freightlines is based in Sandgate, New South Wales and operates intermodal servics from Werris Creek and Sandgate to Port Botany.
Fletcher International Exports
Wednesday 5 October 2022
Fletcher International Exports (FIE) Logistics division moves over 18,000 Twenty foot Equivalent Unit (TEU) per annum on trains operated by Southern Shorthaul Railroad betwen Dubbo and Port Botany in Sydney, using three C44aci UGL 4500 horsepower locomotives and 62 x 60 foot wagons with a combined length of 1.28km.
LINX port shuttle trains
Wednesday 5 October 2022
LINX operates a port shuttle service from their intermodal terminal in Enfield to Port Botany.
BlueScope Port Kembla
Tuesday 4 October 2022
The BlueScope steelworks complex at Port Kembla has an internal standard gauge rail system, with Watco Australia using a fleet of PB class locomotives to shunt steel wagons between the different facilities.
Pacific National NSW coal trains
Tuesday 4 October 2022
Pacific National operates both domestic and export coal trains across New South Wales.
Qube ore trains
Tuesday 4 October 2022
Qube Logistics operates trains transporting containerised ore from mines across NSW to export terminals.
Pacific National NSW cement trains
Monday 3 October 2022
Pacific National operates trains from the Boral cement works at Berrima and Maldon in New South Wales.
Pacific National Bethungra derailment 2022
Friday 30 September 2022
On 15 January 2022 Pacific National freight train 6MB4 derailed while traversing the Bethungra Spiral northbound, with container wagons RRAY 7213S, RRQY 8515T and QQCY 1120F damaged along with a number of loaded containers.
Regional Connect
Thursday 29 September 2022
Regional Connect is part of the Colin Rees Group and plans to operate shuttle trains between the Widgelli Rail Hub at Griffith, and the Main South line at Junee and Cootamundra.
Southern Shorthaul Railroad launch train to Bairnsdale
Tuesday 17 May 2022
On Tuesday 17 May 2022 Southern Shorthaul Railroad ran a short empty container train from Melbourne to Bairnsdale for the public launch of the new Fenning Intermodal Freight Terminal (FIFT) at the former Bosworth Road log sidings, returning to Melbourne on Thursday 19 May.
Pacific National 'hospital' train to North Geelong
Sunday 6 March 2022
Pacific National operates an irregular 'hospital' train conveying broad gauge wagons between Melbourne and the maintenance facility at North Geelong Yard.
Qube Logistics wagon transfers
Friday 31 December 2021
Qube Logistics occasionally operates empty container transfers from NSW into Melbourne.
Pacific National - Sadleirs Logistics
Friday 15 October 2021
Until September 2021 Pacific National moved freight by rail for Sadleirs Logistics with their fleet of RLSY louvre vans, attached to intermodal services.
El Zorro wagon transfer from Warrnambool, December 2008
Thursday 7 October 2021
El Zorro sent T376 down to Warrnambool light engine on Wednesday December 3, 2008 to pick up some of their wagons from the yard. The train returned the next day. Back when they had the contract for running the Warrnambool freight they had a wagon with a cage at one end (ZFSX 12K) that got red carded and couldn't be moved. The second wagon (ZDXF 1) was left behind on the last run as the train was too long to fit into the loop at Camperdown.
Qube Logistics Ettamogah freight
Sunday 25 July 2021
In July 2021 Qube Logistics commenced operating a containerised freight service between the Port of Melbourne and the Ettamogah Rail Hub outside Albury.
Pacific National Bordertown log train
Tuesday 3 November 2020
In August 2020 Pacific National commenced operating a containerised log train from Bordertown in South Australia to the Port of Melbourne.