NORTH Queensland rail yards appear to be coming back on track after several loading facilities between Townsville and Cloncurry were locked earlier this year.
Rail company Aurizon has recently sold a loading facility in Hughenden to the local Flinders Shire Council and the state government earlier this year announced a $4.26 million upgrade of a facility at Maxwelton, between Julia Creek and Richmond.
Aurizon last year lost the contract to Watco East West, who now run the northwest corridor from Cloncurry through Townsville to Brisbane – predominately taking finished cattle to JBS,…
