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Left in limbo: maps prompt call for passenger train corridor details

  • Aaron Isherwood
  • Aug 4, 2021
  • 1 min read

Updated: Dec 11, 2024

Hundreds of southside residents want the state government to release crucial details of a train corridor, which could swallow their homes.

By Judith Kerr - April 8, 2021 - Albert & Logan News (The Courier Mail)

Transport Minister Mark Bailey and Member for Toohey Peter Russo.
Track near Veresdale and near Beaudesert.

Hundreds of southside residents will be left in limbo for another two years before they find out if their homes will be bulldozed to make way for a passenger and freight rail corridor.


The state government’s Transport Department said details of land resumptions would not be available until December 2022 when a business case was completed for the proposed Salisbury to Beaudesert passenger line.


Maps published last month as part of the South East Queensland Regional Transport Plan 2021 fanned fears for residents in suburbs including Flagstone, Forestdale, Hillcrest, Boronia Height, Parkinson, Greenbank, New Beith and Algester. ... Read more ...



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