Nambour and Gympie North railway line

This article is about the Nambour and Gympie North railway line, which is the existing Sunshine Coast Citytrain service. For the proposed railway to Maroochydore, Queensland (CAMCOS), see Maroochydore railway line.

The Nambour and Gympie North railway line (also known as the Sunshine Coast Line) is an interurban railway line in Queensland, Australia connecting Brisbane with the Sunshine Coast and Gympie. It is the longest line of the Citytrain network.

Overview

The Nambour and Gympie North railway line follows the Caboolture line to Caboolture, then past Caboolture it follows the North Coast line to Nambour and Gympie. The line consists of four tracks from Roma Street to Northgate, three tracks to Lawnton to allow the Nambour and Gympie North express services to pass the local Caboolture services. The line is then double track to Beerburrum.

North of Beerburrum, the line is single track with passing loops at most station. Due to a rapidly-rising population on the Sunshine Coast and in hinterland towns, the annual compounded growth rate for morning peak passenger numbers on the line north of Caboolture is six per cent, second only to the 7.1 per cent figure for the Gold Coast Line south of Beenleigh, to Robina. Due to shared traffic with Traveltrain and freight services, interurban services on this line is limited during the off-peak. As a result, additional rail-bus services operate between Caboolture and Nambour in the weekday off-peak, supplementing the train services....
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