Trains bound for Brisbane's 2032 Olympic Games to be built at $7 billion Maryborough site

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The Queensland government announces a $7 billion investment to manufacture trains, set for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games, in regional Queensland.

The Queensland government has announced a $7 billion investment to manufacture trains, set for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games, in regional Queensland.It's the first "local procurement" for the 2032 Olympic GamesSixty-five new trains will be built at a "state-of-the-art" train manufacturing facility at Torbanlea, about 25 kilometres north-west of Maryborough.

Speaking in Maryborough this morning, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said it was one of the most "significant" announcements her government had made."This is going to be the largest investment in train manufacturing that Queensland has ever seen," Ms Palaszczuk said. "This is 800 jobs for this region — this is a significant announcement, 800 jobs, long-term secure jobs, setting rail manufacturing up here for the decades to come.""Because these trains will be needed for the Olympics, for our Cross River Rail," she said.

"They're [the trains] needed for growth that's coming to Queensland, south-east Queensland and also for the [Olympic] Games," Mr Bailey said.

 

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Out of curiosity ... From Qld. What does Clive Palmers new yacht have to do with his announcement about new hospitals. Is National rail a technology as well?

Woot, woot!

There's the difference compared to what N.S.W did to a company like Goninans and their employees.

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