(Goodwood Island) Yamba Port Grafton PROPOSED ROUTE OF MOREE TO YAMBA PORT RAILWAY 440km Option One: Moree to Braunstone - railway route length is 411km, then 70km along existing North Coast Railway 480km Iluka 420km 430km Moree Nymboida to Coffs Harbour Port. Option 2: Additional new railway route length from Braunstone to Yamba Port is 75km. tunnel 0.6km 486.4km 400km 410km Yamba 410.9km The steepest uphill or downhill grade on this route is 1%, or 1 in 100, with 300 metre minimum radius curves. 470km Braunstone MacLean 390km 0km Biniguy The route has one 0.6km tunnel, two 0.5km tunnels and two 0.4km tunnels being a total of 2.4km of tunnels. Wooli Warialda 380km 10km 69.5km from Braunstone to Coffs Harbour 460km Moree via 20km Gravesend Rural Trig to 1 in 1070 or - 0.09% Braunstone 460km Warialda Rail 4km 2km Copmanhurst 40km Glen Innes Jackadgery Up Braunstone to Yamba Port - 75km Goolang Down North Coast Railway 30km 11km - Uphill 4km 36.6km grade grade Biniguy to Koloona grade of Up tunnel 0.4km Moree to Biniguy - 37km Gravesend 1 in 1 in grade 11km 70km 1 in 1100 Uphill grade of 1 in 1200 or +0.08% 50km 52.2km 73.7km 100 16km - Uphill 60km 100 1 in Down 80km Delungra Wellingrove Ck to Rural Trig or +0.09% +1% grade Red Range to Newton Boyd - 71km 450km grade of +1% 100 10kmgrade - Uphill of +1% Downhill grade of 1 in 100 or -1% 100km 1 in Newton Boyd to Braunstone - 101km 1 in 400 or Biniguy to start of 90km 1 in 100 Kellys Gully 1000 Tucabia +0.25% Kellys Gully climb to Koloona or +1.00% +0.1% Downhill grade of 1 in 420 or -0.24% Grafton 26km - Uphill grade of Koloona to 140km 17km - Uphill 5km Wytaliba 110km Down 280km Delungra 108.3km Delungra to 1 in 386 or +0.26% grade 200km 290km 440km 120km 146.8km grade of 12km - Uphill 250km Mt Russell 1 in 100 210km 150km +1.00% 1 in 100 grade of 14km - Uphill 190km 220km 230km or +1.00% 130km Inverell 300km 1 in 172 270km 221.9km grade of 160km 240km 7km 310km 420km 430km or +0.58% 1 in 140 Mt Russell to Inverell Stn 170km Pillar Valley Up 180km Glen Innes 260km Invl Goodwood Id Rly Profile or +0.71% Abbey Green Newton Boyd INSET: 25km - Downhill grade of grade 8km Nymboida Uphill tunnel 0.4km Dalmorton tunnel 0.5km 400km 410km 1 in 227 or -0.44% 1 in tunnel 0.6km 410.9km BRAUNSTONE TO David C. Jones (Consulting Engineers) Pty Ltd ! grade Woodstock Rd to Spring Buccarumbi Braunstone David C. Jones 100 Spring Mtn Rd ACN 001 816 039 ABN/GST No. 65 001 816 039 ! Consulting Civil and Structural Engineers 1 in 276 Mtn Rd - 23km - Uphill 320km Dalmorton 51 Lewin Street, Inverell, NSW, Australia, 2360! to Shire Bdry 330km 390km +1.00% Newton Boyd 360km COFFS HARBOUR 370km Telephone (02) 6721 0222 Facsimile (02) 6721 0111 ! +0.36% grade of 1 in 121 13km - Uphill 340km Mobile 0427 210222 Email: [email protected]! tunnel 0.5km 380km Wooli or +0.83% grade of 1 in 100 350km David C. Jones: BE, MEngSc, FIEAust, Chartered ! or +1.00% PORT Professional Engineer 384884, NPER Civil and Structural! "Bridging the Gap between Cost Effectiveness and Excellence" Registered Professional Engineer Queensland No. 2125! Serving Inverell and District Since 1974 Prepared by David C. Jones 6th October 2011 Registered Building Practitioner Victoria No. EC-2289 Flood Forecasting for Inverell SES as a Free Community Service Since 1976 To Coffs Harbour Version 5 © David C. Jones Goolang Scale: 1 : 250,000 tunnel 0.4km Port. See Inset Coffs Harbour.