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Robert Dow
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Public transport advocate Ex soldier RAAMC PTE CPL SGT SSGT LT CAPT (Ret'd) Retired Medical Scientist FAIMS
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · Apr 10
For your information, RAIL Back On Track has gone into retirement. In place is a new advocacy group 'Better Transport Queensland (BTQ)'. BTQ members advocate for public and active transport as well as regional transport, and freight rail.
See > bettertransportqueensland.org
Better Transport Queensland
Better Transport Queensland champions sustainable public and active transport while promoting efficient regional transport and freight rail solutions for a connected and greener future.
bettertransportqueensland.org
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · 1d
Better Transport Queensland Releases 2025 Policy Platform
forum.bettertransportqueensland.org/t/better-tra...
Better Transport Queensland Releases 2025 Policy Platform
Better Transport Queensland is proud to release our 2025 Policy Platform: a forward-looking blueprint for a safer, more connected, and sustainable transport future across Queensland. Click here to d...
forum.bettertransportqueensland.org
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · 1d
Better Transport Queensland Releases 2025 Policy Platform
forum.bettertransportqueensland.org/t/better-tra...
Better Transport Queensland Releases 2025 Policy Platform
Better Transport Queensland is proud to release our 2025 Policy Platform: a forward-looking blueprint for a safer, more connected, and sustainable transport future across Queensland. Click here to d...
forum.bettertransportqueensland.org
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · 16d
Brisbane drivers face longer delays at level crossings as rail network expands
abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Motorists face boom gate down times of up to 50 minutes of peak hour
Level crossing boom gates are expected to be down for much longer as Queensland adds more trains to its rail network.
abc.net.au
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · 16d
Brisbane drivers face longer delays at level crossings as rail network expands
abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Motorists face boom gate down times of up to 50 minutes of peak hour
Level crossing boom gates are expected to be down for much longer as Queensland adds more trains to its rail network.
abc.net.au
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · Sep 4
Ipswich bus improvements underway as operator announced
translink.com.au/news-and-med...
Bus operator Transit Systems has won the contract to deliver an Ipswich and Logan bus improvement package.
Rear view of buses.
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · Sep 4
Ipswich bus improvements underway as operator announced
translink.com.au/news-and-med...
Bus operator Transit Systems has won the contract to deliver an Ipswich and Logan bus improvement package.
Rear view of buses.
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · Sep 1
Burleigh to Border Light Rail Cancellation “Bitterly Disappointing”
forum.bettertransportqueensland.org/t/burleigh-t...
Better Transport Queensland
Burleigh to Border Light Rail Cancellation “Bitterly Disappointing”
Better Transport Queensland Monday, 1 September, 2025 For Immediate Release Better Transport Queensland has described the Crisafulli Government’s decision to can Gold Coast Light Rail Stage 4...
forum.bettertransportqueensland.org
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · Sep 1
Burleigh to Border Light Rail Cancellation “Bitterly Disappointing”
forum.bettertransportqueensland.org/t/burleigh-t...
Better Transport Queensland
Burleigh to Border Light Rail Cancellation “Bitterly Disappointing”
Better Transport Queensland Monday, 1 September, 2025 For Immediate Release Better Transport Queensland has described the Crisafulli Government’s decision to can Gold Coast Light Rail Stage 4...
forum.bettertransportqueensland.org
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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · Aug 30
Today's historic pic: 42 years ago today, 1500V DC electric loco L1152 on a VLine Traralgon-bound passenger train departs Morwell, Vic, August 30 1983. Morwell is 144km east of Melbourne on the broad gauge Gippsland line. The line was electrified to Traralgon from 1956 until 1987.
An image taken from a low angle alongside an electrified railway line. Looking up past a grassy area with bushes in flower, we see a streamlined electric locomotive in VR blue and gold livery passing a lower quadrant semaphore signal in the proceed position and hauling a train of tangerine liveried passenger carriages, passes beneath an overhead wiring gantry as it departs a railway station.
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · Aug 15
It's no Metro, it is BERT!
Brisbane Busway Electric Rapid Transit (BERT)
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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · Jul 23
Part 2 of my chat with UK railway engineer and social commentator Gareth Dennis is now online. In episode 271 of Gareth's award-winning #Railnatter series we discuss current day Australian railways and the pipeline of projects.
Watch on YouTube here:
youtu.be/HkwEbGj8bB0
Australia's surprising rail transformation story - with Chris Brownbill | #Railnatter 271
YouTube video by Gareth Dennis
youtu.be
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · Jul 21
New details of The Wave unveiled amid calls for clearer project information
www.sunshinecoastnews.com.au/2025/07/21/n...
New details for The Wave as transport advocates push for clarity
The state government has released new details about its planned mass transit service on the Sunshine Coast, but transport advocates are calling for greater transparency around the multibillion-dollar ...
www.sunshinecoastnews.com.au
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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · Jul 18
You probably don't expect Gardening Australia to be a rich source of railway content - but today it is. And of course it's Kuranda.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=n_8-...
Rainforest Railway Garden | Discovery | Gardening Australia
YouTube video by Gardening Australia
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · Jul 4
Last day for revenue service of the Queensland Rail
EMUs. EMU 59 is doing a farewell tour today. Details > queenslandrail.com.au/forcustomers...
EMU 59 at Roma St station
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · Jun 28
BTQ Media release: Brisbane’s New Bus Network a Positive Step, but Many Still Left Waiting
bettertransportqueensland.org/releases/bri...
Brisbane’s New Bus Network a Positive Step, but Many Still Left Waiting - Better Transport Queensland
Stay informed with the latest official media releases from Better Transport Queensland—covering public, active, and sustainable transport updates fresh from the source!
bettertransportqueensland.org
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · Jun 28
BTQ Media release: Brisbane’s New Bus Network a Positive Step, but Many Still Left Waiting
bettertransportqueensland.org/releases/bri...
Brisbane’s New Bus Network a Positive Step, but Many Still Left Waiting - Better Transport Queensland
Stay informed with the latest official media releases from Better Transport Queensland—covering public, active, and sustainable transport updates fresh from the source!
bettertransportqueensland.org
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Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · Jun 28
Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update:

The risk estimate rose sharply again last week to 1.6% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-64. After 7 weeks, there’s still no peak in sight.

That implies a 38% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30.

#COVID19 #Australia
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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · Jun 27
Today's historic pic: A Whitcomb diesel rail tractor hauls a train of paper products on the 6km long then-privately run broad gauge APM siding near Maryvale, Vic, December 1984. VLine T class diesels took over from these rail tractors soon after this pic. Trainloads of paper still run here today.
A black and white image taken from an overbridge looking down over a single track railway in a rural location. A goods train running towards us is hauled by a smallish hood-style industrial diesel locomotive painted in a light colour with dark diagonal strips on its front buffer.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Jun 20
‘Legacy-making’ Sydney metro stations take out top prize in NSW Architecture awards
‘Legacy-making’ Sydney metro stations take out top prize in NSW Architecture awards
‘Transformative’ project wins the 2025 architecture medallion as town centres, industrial restorations and residential homes collect other awards of note * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Sydney’s recently opened network of city metro stations have taken out one of the top prizes at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2025 NSW Architecture awards, announced on Friday night. Dozens of Australian architecture firms, engineering companies, landscape designers and public art experts shared in the 2025 NSW architecture medallion for their work on the Central, Barangaroo, Gadigal, Victoria Cross, Martin Place, Waterloo, Sydenham and Crows Nest stations in what the judges hailed as a “legacy-making” and “city-shaping” cross-sector collaboration. Continue reading...
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · Jun 20
Translink PT performance dashboard (Q3 2024-25) published translink.com.au/about-transl...
Overall patronage growth compared to Q3 2023-24 is +9.07%.
Bus +5.12%
Ferry +24.11%
Rail +14.22%
Tram +19.48%
Translink PT performance dashboard
translink.com.au
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · Jun 20
Translink PT performance dashboard (Q3 2024-25) published translink.com.au/about-transl...
Overall patronage growth compared to Q3 2023-24 is +9.07%.
Bus +5.12%
Ferry +24.11%
Rail +14.22%
Tram +19.48%
Translink PT performance dashboard
translink.com.au
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · Jun 8
Glad you had a great weekend. Happy safe travels!
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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · Jun 8
Today's historic pic: Exactly 40 years ago today, after having brought the Spirit of Progress in earlier that morning, EMD diesel loco 42217 nears the Cleveland Street bridge after having run light engine through the throat of the yard at Central Terminal, Sydney, June 8 1985.
A boxcab carbody style diesel locomotive in Indian red livery with hi-viz yellow ends sits at the throat of a large railway yard on one of a dozen or so tracks that sit beneath overhead wires. A brick wall marks the far boundary of the railway at left, and at right, the tracks pass beneath a road overbridge that spans each successive pair of railway tracks with a brick or stone arch.
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Robert Dow @ozbob13.bsky.social · May 31
Ha! Neat.
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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · May 30
Today's historic pic: Exactly 38 years ago today, C504 hauls a Melbourne-Adelaide broad gauge 'Jet' express goods through Rockbank, Vic, May 30 1987. Since 1995, Melbourne-Adelaide trains have run on standard gauge via North Shore. This line through Rockbank is now a busy VLine passenger route.
A large full width cab hood style diesel locomotive in VR blue and gold livery hauling a train of bogie goods wagons passes a lattice masted bracket signal post that had obviously originally supported semaphore arms but which now carries searchlight style colour light signals as it runs along the straight track through a crossing loop on a mainline railway in a rural setting.
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