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Farmers in limbo as $100m in Inland Rail land sits idle - Gladstone, QLD
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Despite the federal government scrapping the northern section of Inland Rail, it says it will focus on "preservation of the rail corridor". Landholders who have lived in the proposed rail path for a decade are calling...
For 10 years, Queensland farmer Tim Durre has woken up wondering if a freight train will one day cut through his paddocks.
"It weighs on my mind every day of the week," he said.
The proposed Inland Rail route sweeps through Mr Durre's property west of Toowoomba in a wide curve, taking out a dam, a bore and irrigation lines for his crops, making his hay farm "fairly well unusable".
Despite the federal government scrapping the northern section of the railway, Mr Durre says he and others like him have no more clarity on their future than they did before.
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For 10 years, Queensland farmer Tim Durre has woken up wondering if a freight train will one day cut through his paddocks.
"It weighs on my mind every day of the week," he said.
The proposed Inland Rail route sweeps through Mr Durre's property west of Toowoomba in a wide curve, taking out a dam, a bore and irrigation lines for his crops, making his hay farm "fairly well unusable".
Despite the federal government scrapping the northern section of the railway, Mr Durre says he and others like him have no more clarity on their future than they did before.
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