This project does not exist yet, so I'm purely using the Sydney Metro footage to illustrate what the construction might look like. This video is well researched and I'm one of the first to dive into this project on RUclips. Hope you enjoyed it and learnt about the project from it.
@@Luxified24 Actually it does but it is poorly managed and extremely overpriced considering most of the line already exists and is single track for most of it's length and has no electrification.
Honestly after about the 5th time I was reminded that this project is good because it reduces greenhouse gasses, I just said enough of this propaganda. A single rail track for $31B and most of it isn't new...better than wasted on virtual nuclear submarines but how about a double line? I note countries such as India who have installed significant new rail over recent years (including for dedicated fast passenger and dedicated freight) have electrified those new freight lines.
0:10 I remember them digging all this at wang. Not sure how people say Inland rail doesn’t exist. They are literally building it. The extra platform at wang is pretty much done
What Australia really needs is a mean of tranferring rainwater from the Eastern seaboard over the Divide to the inlands of QLD and NSW. And another from the NT to the centre of OZ.
So China's 45,000km high-speed rail network whose trains are always full and are cheap, convenient and reliable is good for the environment. But all the Western media can say is that it's a waste of money and a white elephant. They also ignore China's many freight trains that are helping the economies of many landlocked countries. Maybe Australia should ask China, with its experience and technological expertise to do this project. It will be a lot cheaper. :)
I can get stuff out of China quicker then getting a parcel from one side of the Blue mountains to the other from Auspost, even though the one from China uses Auspost for the last leg, go fiquire that one out...
20minutes longer than it needed to be. I love information on trains but after 10 minutes of repetition, incorrect pronunciation and wrong images, even I got bored.
Not approved, not even started. For a video about inland rail there is a remarkable amount of video of Sydney and it's metro project. I stopped watching after 10 minutes. Total bullshit.
This article is more of a sales pitch than anything. We used to have a great rail network in Australia, linking almost all towns, big & small. Sadly the successive governments, union & worker greed ruined this
@@rukbiiboi Idk mate, maybe it's their constant strikes, unrealistic demands & inflating the Labour costs? CFMEU has public infrastructure by the balls.
NSW and VIC were the biggest problem with Inland Rail as y’all had massive Budget blowouts cause VIC couldn’t function there economy probably. It’s only gonna take 2 years for the project to be completed nothing near 30 years 😂
The cost for this project seems more than reasonable when compared with Victoria's absurd North East Link project which is currently projected to cost a similar figure.
Well Well. Have been following this project for quite a while. Agree with others on here it is a revised bulldust video. What happened to the ANGRY NSW FARMERS who raised the issue of the line going through long time FLOOD PLAINS without much thought and would never approve it. I thought it had been killed as a project.
This should have been done when Howard was Prime Minister instead of giving billions away in tax cuts from the money Australia got through mining royalties. As far as the video is concerned, it is so repititious that its boring. Why is it also showing American dollars and their city scapes when it has nothing to do with Australia?
They started this inland rail project without actually deciding where in Brisbane and Melbourne the line will terminate. They still don't know but this video suggests the Melbourne terminus will be at Beveridge, nearly 40km north of Melbourne. The Government also pondered creating a logistics park and terminus nearer Werribee, too. There is the same confusion at the Brisbane end of the line.
It’s kilometre and metre, not kilometer and meter (unless you are American - they decided to “fix” the spelling even though they haven’t converted to the metric system)
Electrification of the inland line would improve: the logistics of carrying diesel and refueling the diesel powered locomotives. Maintenance costs of diesel engines. Cut down pollution further, by using wind/sun generated power by local shires. An additional idea, why not build a complete double track network ?! I guess the plan is being built "by committee...."
So you could not be bothered to get footage from areas of actual works. Probably to far from the city. Look at Parkes, Narromine, Glenrowan and many others
Its a incredible project but they should open what they can to help pay for the project. as well as go as far as possible into queensland until the legal dramas are over an inland port tranferring goods to road!
The amount of freight moved on a train, was the reason the truck lobby was organized. 40 ton truck verses a 400 to 2000 ton rail train. Trucks are required to distribute goods to the buyer. Just imagine how much filthy diesel into our air would till be saved. The Union had a lot to do wit this, but this is only logical speculation, the Unions had frightening power then. I witnessed rails ripped up, land sold so they could never replace the rail lines, MP's in on the madness$$. Cost to replace the rail is not feasible today with greed set in everywhere? The lifeline rail; if still there was from Brisbane to the west outback to supply towns like Roma etc: at very reasonable prices (Peterson Q pm) at that particular time. Many rails lines, if they were left would have been so handy for bush people's transport along the stretches' to where they left the rail alone. I am targeting WA south right now and the 1970's as an area, a lot of the small distances were originally Logging trains. My opinion is that all this ripping was manipulated by Truck Union lobbies. If I am wrong show where I am confused. Self Interest can be damaging. I know what parties were in power ??
Actually trucks are very clean these days compared to the old days , in the old days with very basic mechanical injectors it was hard to get precise metering of fuel, back in those days diesel engine were allowed to belch black soot for 7 seconds , and that happened every time a new gear was selected . Coppers and epa are right on to trucks that are dirty these days , and if they are running dirty , they are using more fuel , so it’s in the best interests of trucks to keep their vehicles maintained. These days with electronic engines the injectors are very precise and are tuned very well , even the spray pattern of the injectors can be altered electronically . As for train efficiency, it’s only as good as the trucks , because the boxes do not deliver themselves, and trains only deliver to central rail yards where they are unloaded on to more trucks . So if you want freight delivered to your door interstate , going on the railways is not always the most efficient, and that goes for rail yards too , as someone that has worked out of multiple rail yards, it can be very time consuming waiting to get unloaded or loaded , if there’s 500 boxes to be unloaded , rail yards are extremely dangerous places and 20 ton fork lifts are required to operate safely Wharfs are also dangerous places with cranes , fork lifts and gigantic container straddles . I was at a wharf in Melbourne years ago , one of the straddles had a mechanical problem and an engineer was working on it near the wheel area, the straddle driver thought he was right to go and drove off and killed the engineer. Going back to the railway , why wouldn’t they make the rail lines dual all the way from point A to point B ? That means only one train can come up the single section and the other has to wait , doesn’t really sound efficient. And if freight due to population growth is going to grow so much , what if there are multiple trains going up and coming down , the single sections will be a bottleneck. Seeings they are already having the machines there to build this one track , surely it would have been more efficient to build 2 all the way?
Problem is you can still run faster than the trains. The Australian rail system is woeful for go to whoa. There is potential but I fear the unions wouldn’t allow it.
The carbon dioxide emissions excuse is nonsense. Otherwise this is an excellent idea. There are arguments about the route. The cost will be recovered eventually. Let’s hope that it all works properly.
Doing the sums and freight saving promises, this slow speed white elephant, will take 82 years to cover costs on the freight savings to companies. Not including repairs and upgrades in between. The Chinese companies and others that are contracted to build are rubbing there hands as their banks fill up with Australian money on the overcharging to do this. EG. John Holland Pty Ltd.
They will regret not building a two track system in five years, then it will cost double what it costs now to add another line alongside. Just Corporate governance big noting themselves
"Origianl go-ahead in 2008;" Eestimated cost $1.8 billion. in 20024 it i ONLY 20% complete, still no known completion date and "estimated cost of $31 billion - to Qld. border!! If Qld. pulls is finger out, another $7.8 billion will be needed. This beats anything that Robert Stitch's 'UTOPIA" could dream up!! And it only took 7 minutes for Bunde-of- Joyce to show his his mug!
Multiple years behind schedule and nowhere near completion, the budget is far too scary to think about, the root more resembles a sheep’s piss in snow, all for a single rail. No 30 minutes of propaganda has not sold it to me.
How can I believe this site when it is showing footage of Sydneys Metro trains and routs. The inland rail project is a long way from Sydney and will not transport to it. with only minimal advantage to NSW. Sorry guys I can no longer trust any of the content of Luxifield.
It's a no brainer. But our current US administration will not allow it to complete. Vassal states must not acheive economic sovereignty or develop infrastructure that benefits a possible rival in global connectivity. Continue to develop proposals but a major political shift and possible conflict with the most violent state in world history may be neccessary for us to join the region we live in.
It will NEVER replace road transportation too many remote locations and no rail infrastructure around towns and cities all good for point to point transport
We have to be realistic it's possible that this project never gets off the ground and if it does it will take 300% longer cost 500% more and be plagued with issues. 90% of the work force will be traffic controllers and hardly 1% will do a decent days work. The days of the hardworking Aussie battler have been replaced by Woke, Lazy, entitled Okkers who don't give a Bilby's backside. (My reasoning is due to being on the Gold Coast watching a Light rail project blow out by Hundreds of Millions and up to three years over due. But we do have very imaginative Traffic controllers altering what lanes to be open or closed on a Nightly basis! What will happen if this heavy rail projects gets off the ground, out west? "Absolutely Nothing"!
Why was this video made? It smacks of an American video. I've not even heard of this project. The red flag for me is the use of the US dollar shown when currency is shown! We don't use USD here in Australia - we're not American/American state! Quite repetitive - also an American trait.
sick of videos like this with lots of scenery that has nothing absolutely nothing to do with the video subject. Clickbaits galore. Thumbs down for this and others like it.
What a waste of money Victoria should secede from Australia and become the California of the south and develop Portland as our capital city It has a deep water port and easy access to Adelaide and plenty of land for airports military installations and industrial development Melbourne will always be hampered by the West Gate connection which separates the main industrial areas from the transport hub and the CBD Queensland is just a mill stone around our necks dragging us down and preventing us from adapting to the 21st century
This is the first time I have heard of this project. I keep myself abreast of rail developments in Australia and this is not even mentioned anywhere that I have read. Luxified, you show nothing of substance to make this a bit more believable. And showing the US dollar to me was a red flag that this Video is not actually true and only hearsay and speculation. Only showing clips of past and present projects. Australia on it's own only has 26-27 Million ppl and don't have the kind of a cash flo as this would require from the taxpayer to build. If you are talking about the HSP (FYI, it is not called the 31B Mega Railway) rail link from Sydney to Newcastle is ONLY in it's preliminary stages of it's development, mapping out the desired route it will take, if Tunnels need to be built etc. Just last week I was passing through Brooklyn on the Sydney intercity rail and there was barges out on the water which I later found out was testing for the bedrock and how deep the tunnel would need to be. IF the tunnel could be built through the Hawkesbury River corridor up to Gosford under the Brisbane Water lake. That is, the first link that would be built, IF it could be built at all. From what I know at this point in time, that engineers are taking samples from in around Brooklyn and the Hawkesbury River. That is a BIG IF. The gradient is another factor, so that is why they are proposing a tunnel. This whole project is to fact-find even if the link could be built at all. And then if it is a go, it would link up to Canberra and then on to Melbourne. Here is a link that I've found that will shed light on the subject: 'It will never get to Brisbane': Inland Rail project at a crossroads | 7.30 ABC News In-depth ruclips.net/video/7pS2ly9begw/видео.html See LuxIfied, this is what you needed to start out with, but you have failed to get yourself out of the gate.
Lots of nice pics of tunnels for sydney metro. Nothing to do with inland rail. Poorly researched clickbait.
This project does not exist yet, so I'm purely using the Sydney Metro footage to illustrate what the construction might look like. This video is well researched and I'm one of the first to dive into this project on RUclips. Hope you enjoyed it and learnt about the project from it.
@@Luxified24 Actually it does but it is poorly managed and extremely overpriced considering most of the line already exists and is single track for most of it's length and has no electrification.
When it's finished the price blowout will make it 150 BN.
Honestly after about the 5th time I was reminded that this project is good because it reduces greenhouse gasses, I just said enough of this propaganda. A single rail track for $31B and most of it isn't new...better than wasted on virtual nuclear submarines but how about a double line? I note countries such as India who have installed significant new rail over recent years (including for dedicated fast passenger and dedicated freight) have electrified those new freight lines.
0:10 I remember them digging all this at wang.
Not sure how people say Inland rail doesn’t exist. They are literally building it. The extra platform at wang is pretty much done
What Australia really needs is a mean of tranferring rainwater from the Eastern seaboard over the Divide to the inlands of QLD and NSW.
And another from the NT to the centre of OZ.
So China's 45,000km high-speed rail network whose trains are always full and are cheap, convenient and reliable is good for the environment. But all the Western media can say is that it's a waste of money and a white elephant. They also ignore China's many freight trains that are helping the economies of many landlocked countries. Maybe Australia should ask China, with its experience and technological expertise to do this project. It will be a lot cheaper. :)
I can get stuff out of China quicker then getting a parcel from one side of the Blue mountains to the other from Auspost, even though the one from China uses Auspost for the last leg, go fiquire that one out...
Why do you keep repeating yourself, say it once and move on!! Sounds more like a sales job to the Australian people and not a very good one at that
20minutes longer than it needed to be. I love information on trains but after 10 minutes of repetition, incorrect pronunciation and wrong images, even I got bored.
Not approved, not even started. For a video about inland rail there is a remarkable amount of video of Sydney and it's metro project. I stopped watching after 10 minutes. Total bullshit.
😂 don't get out of Sydney much. Been working on the inland railway for the last 2 years in the north west of NSW.
@@craigmorris7186 Mate, good luck with your job. I mean that, but it doesn't change the fact that this video is incredibly misleading and inaccurate.
This article is more of a sales pitch than anything. We used to have a great rail network in Australia, linking almost all towns, big & small. Sadly the successive governments, union & worker greed ruined this
Union and worker greed. How so?
@@rukbiiboi
Idk mate, maybe it's their constant strikes, unrealistic demands & inflating the Labour costs?
CFMEU has public infrastructure by the balls.
@@rukbiiboi They demanded enough income to afford a home.
Victoria and New South Wales are already in full swing. We just have to wait another 30 years for Queensland to catch up
NSW and VIC were the biggest problem with Inland Rail as y’all had massive Budget blowouts cause VIC couldn’t function there economy probably. It’s only gonna take 2 years for the project to be completed nothing near 30 years 😂
The cost for this project seems more than reasonable when compared with Victoria's absurd North East Link project which is currently projected to cost a similar figure.
You can thank Scomo for that massive blunder, costings blow out due to lack of Federal funding from the beginning causing 3 year delays
We had a fanrastic rail network, then everything went bye road, now its going back to rail
Well Well. Have been following this project for quite a while. Agree with others on here it is a revised bulldust video.
What happened to the ANGRY NSW FARMERS who raised the issue of the line going through long time FLOOD PLAINS without much thought and would never approve it.
I thought it had been killed as a project.
A 10 minute video would have been sufficient.
For a in land rail project you have a ton of Suburb Sydney tunnels vision and then Americans city scapes THEN America money
With Australia's short sighted and small-minded politicians, I'll believe it when I see it.
Your pronunciation of inland, as inlind, is painful. Inland is pronounced in-LAND.
its a bot, saying Narabree [bri[ they all mess up Km ,,,listen to it
You’re talking about government getting it right,good luck
What's happening with the inability to say "New South Wales"? eg sounding something like "nesessawulles" at 28:15
If only they would electify the rail corridor, would make great sense
This should have been done when Howard was Prime Minister instead of giving billions away in tax cuts from the money Australia got through mining royalties. As far as the video is concerned, it is so repititious that its boring. Why is it also showing American dollars and their city scapes when it has nothing to do with Australia?
We can’t even build a railway to Tullamarine how are we going to get to Brisbane?
They started this inland rail project without actually deciding where in Brisbane and Melbourne the line will terminate. They still don't know but this video suggests the Melbourne terminus will be at Beveridge, nearly 40km north of Melbourne. The Government also pondered creating a logistics park and terminus nearer Werribee, too. There is the same confusion at the Brisbane end of the line.
Strange video. The writing and stock video is all over the place and unfocussed. That said, the rail project is very much needed
It’s kilometre and metre, not kilometer and meter (unless you are American - they decided to “fix” the spelling even though they haven’t converted to the metric system)
and km/h, not kmph
and when are the Yanks going go into the metric system like the rest of the world? It is such a backward country
@@bear4759 I ottally agree
@@bear4759About As much chance of the yanks giving up their guns & bibles.
Electrification of the inland line would improve:
the logistics of carrying diesel and refueling the diesel powered locomotives. Maintenance costs of diesel engines.
Cut down pollution further, by using wind/sun generated power by local shires.
An additional idea, why not build a complete double track network ?!
I guess the plan is being built "by committee...."
Very good policy best for fraught and moving traders and investors brilliant masters in engineering transportation smart 🤓😢😮😅😊
Reading the comments it would appear that nothing should be done anywhere at anytime, now I understand why the LNP gets elected.
So you could not be bothered to get footage from areas of actual works. Probably to far from the city.
Look at Parkes, Narromine, Glenrowan and many others
9:35 nice to see we are now using US greenbacks.
Its a incredible project but they should open what they can to help pay for the project. as well as go as far as possible into queensland until the legal dramas are over an inland port tranferring goods to road!
so putting ppl out of work is essential sounds like labours way of thinking
The amount of freight moved on a train, was the reason the truck lobby was organized.
40 ton truck verses a 400 to 2000 ton rail train. Trucks are required to distribute goods to the buyer. Just imagine how much filthy diesel into our air would till be saved.
The Union had a lot to do wit this, but this is only logical speculation, the Unions had frightening power then. I witnessed rails ripped up, land sold so they could never replace the rail lines, MP's in on the madness$$. Cost to replace the rail is not feasible today with greed set in everywhere?
The lifeline rail; if still there was from Brisbane to the west outback to supply towns like Roma etc: at very reasonable prices (Peterson Q pm) at that particular time.
Many rails lines, if they were left would have been so handy for bush people's transport along the stretches' to where they left the rail alone. I am targeting WA south right now and the 1970's as an area, a lot of the small distances were originally Logging trains.
My opinion is that all this ripping was manipulated by Truck Union lobbies. If I am wrong show where I am confused. Self Interest can be damaging. I know what parties were in power ??
Actually trucks are very clean these days compared to the old days , in the old days with very basic mechanical injectors it was hard to get precise metering of fuel, back in those days diesel engine were allowed to belch black soot for 7 seconds , and that happened every time a new gear was selected .
Coppers and epa are right on to trucks that are dirty these days , and if they are running dirty , they are using more fuel , so it’s in the best interests of trucks to keep their vehicles maintained.
These days with electronic engines the injectors are very precise and are tuned very well , even the spray pattern of the injectors can be altered electronically .
As for train efficiency, it’s only as good as the trucks , because the boxes do not deliver themselves, and trains only deliver to central rail yards where they are unloaded on to more trucks .
So if you want freight delivered to your door interstate , going on the railways is not always the most efficient, and that goes for rail yards too , as someone that has worked out of multiple rail yards, it can be very time consuming waiting to get unloaded or loaded , if there’s 500 boxes to be unloaded , rail yards are extremely dangerous places and 20 ton fork lifts are required to operate safely
Wharfs are also dangerous places with cranes , fork lifts and gigantic container straddles . I was at a wharf in Melbourne years ago , one of the straddles had a mechanical problem and an engineer was working on it near the wheel area, the straddle driver thought he was right to go and drove off and killed the engineer.
Going back to the railway , why wouldn’t they make the rail lines dual all the way from point A to point B ?
That means only one train can come up the single section and the other has to wait , doesn’t really sound efficient.
And if freight due to population growth is going to grow so much , what if there are multiple trains going up and coming down , the single sections will be a bottleneck.
Seeings they are already having the machines there to build this one track , surely it would have been more efficient to build 2 all the way?
Lets hope the project doesnt go down under! .. too soon?😅
Problem is you can still run faster than the trains. The Australian rail system is woeful for go to whoa. There is potential but I fear the unions wouldn’t allow it.
The carbon dioxide emissions excuse is nonsense. Otherwise this is an excellent idea. There are arguments about the route. The cost will be recovered eventually. Let’s hope that it all works properly.
Yes it goes 1600km from Melbourne but stops short of reaching the Port of Brisbane requiring road transport to reach there. How pathetic is that?
Do we think this will ever happen?
Doing the sums and freight saving promises, this slow speed white elephant, will take 82 years to cover costs on the freight savings to companies. Not including repairs and upgrades in between. The Chinese companies and others that are contracted to build are rubbing there hands as their banks fill up with Australian money on the overcharging to do this. EG. John Holland Pty Ltd.
They will regret not building a two track system in five years, then it will cost double what it costs now to add another line alongside. Just Corporate governance big noting themselves
Basically a route that NSW eastern seaboard will have no benefit from?
"Origianl go-ahead in 2008;" Eestimated cost $1.8 billion. in 20024 it i ONLY 20% complete, still no known completion date and "estimated cost of $31 billion - to Qld. border!! If Qld. pulls is finger out, another $7.8 billion will be needed.
This beats anything that Robert Stitch's 'UTOPIA" could dream up!!
And it only took 7 minutes for Bunde-of- Joyce to show his his mug!
Waste of money unless it's high speed rail.
Multiple years behind schedule and nowhere near completion, the budget is far too scary to think about, the root more resembles a sheep’s piss in snow, all for a single rail. No 30 minutes of propaganda has not sold it to me.
Hey Luxified, Why are you showing US dollars? We are in Australia you know AU$...dollars. WOW
Hey Tanner! My audience is primarily American so that’s why, I get your point though since it’s a video about Australia :)
Is this just a thinly disguised (Sydney promo) piece on infrastructure spending funded by the Australian taxpayer ?.
How can I believe this site when it is showing footage of Sydneys Metro trains and routs. The inland rail project is a long way from Sydney and will not transport to it. with only minimal advantage to NSW. Sorry guys I can no longer trust any of the content of Luxifield.
A good update as I`m kinda new with the inland rail project, living in the west of OZ. I like what is going on, with what is going on.
Since when was this started .... I don't think so
115km/hr ?????
It's a no brainer. But our current US administration will not allow it to complete. Vassal states must not acheive economic sovereignty or develop infrastructure that benefits a possible rival in global connectivity.
Continue to develop proposals but a major political shift and possible conflict with the most violent state in world history may be neccessary for us to join the region we live in.
yankee $s in the graphics !!!!!!!!
It will NEVER replace road transportation too many remote locations and no rail infrastructure around towns and cities all good for point to point transport
Cut the crap of climate change. It makes it woke. #GoWokeGoBroke😊
ONLY SINGLE TRACK? THAT'S A WASTE ISN'T IT? NI SALES JOB!! NOTHING MORE....AND THE ROLLING STOCK???
We have to be realistic it's possible that this project never gets off the ground and if it does it will take 300% longer cost 500% more and be plagued with issues. 90% of the work force will be traffic controllers and hardly 1% will do a decent days work. The days of the hardworking Aussie battler have been replaced by Woke, Lazy, entitled Okkers who don't give a Bilby's backside. (My reasoning is due to being on the Gold Coast watching a Light rail project blow out by Hundreds of Millions and up to three years over due. But we do have very imaginative Traffic controllers altering what lanes to be open or closed on a Nightly basis! What will happen if this heavy rail projects gets off the ground, out west? "Absolutely Nothing"!
Why was this video made? It smacks of an American video. I've not even heard of this project. The red flag for me is the use of the US dollar shown when currency is shown! We don't use USD here in Australia - we're not American/American state! Quite repetitive - also an American trait.
sick of videos like this with lots of scenery that has nothing absolutely nothing to do with the video subject. Clickbaits galore. Thumbs down for this and others like it.
What a waste of money
Victoria should secede from Australia and become the California of the south and develop Portland as our capital city
It has a deep water port and easy access to Adelaide and plenty of land for airports military installations and industrial development
Melbourne will always be hampered by the West Gate connection which separates the main industrial areas from the transport hub and the CBD
Queensland is just a mill stone around our necks dragging us down and preventing us from adapting to the 21st century
Yeah this will happen. When we're all long gone. Around 2090. Trucks should have been removed from roads years ago. Go away.
BS
australia should have been making bullet trains decades back... they should go for nuclear power energy beacause there's no earthquakes at all..
This is the first time I have heard of this project. I keep myself abreast of rail developments in Australia and this is not even mentioned anywhere that I have read. Luxified, you show nothing of substance to make this a bit more believable. And showing the US dollar to me was a red flag that this Video is not actually true and only hearsay and speculation. Only showing clips of past and present projects. Australia on it's own only has 26-27 Million ppl and don't have the kind of a cash flo as this would require from the taxpayer to build. If you are talking about the HSP (FYI, it is not called the 31B Mega Railway) rail link from Sydney to Newcastle is ONLY in it's preliminary stages of it's development, mapping out the desired route it will take, if Tunnels need to be built etc. Just last week I was passing through Brooklyn on the Sydney intercity rail and there was barges out on the water which I later found out was testing for the bedrock and how deep the tunnel would need to be. IF the tunnel could be built through the Hawkesbury River corridor up to Gosford under the Brisbane Water lake. That is, the first link that would be built, IF it could be built at all. From what I know at this point in time, that engineers are taking samples from in around Brooklyn and the Hawkesbury River. That is a BIG IF. The gradient is another factor, so that is why they are proposing a tunnel. This whole project is to fact-find even if the link could be built at all. And then if it is a go, it would link up to Canberra and then on to Melbourne. Here is a link that I've found that will shed light on the subject:
'It will never get to Brisbane': Inland Rail project at a crossroads | 7.30
ABC News In-depth ruclips.net/video/7pS2ly9begw/видео.html
See LuxIfied, this is what you needed to start out with, but you have failed to get yourself out of the gate.