Back from a few days turtle watching.....

NHC own the port facilities at Fishermans Island, but Queensland Rail provide the transportation.

Load out near New Ackland is fairly basic..the coal is trucked a couple of k to the rail line, where is is pretty much dumped beside the tracks. End loader puts it on the trains from there. No conveyors or overhead discharge into wagons fom hopper bins etc....maybe this will come with the mine's expansion.

I also understand that a the segment of the line down the Toowoomba Range is capacity limited at this stage. The trains are also comparatively small compared to their central Queensland cousins.

To get to FI, the rail transverses through Brisbane's suburbs, so there may be restraints (now or in the future) because of conflicting demand by the surburban passenger sytem and maybe even noise issues. Over my side of town, morning and afternoon peak times are pretty much given over to the suburban network, and I would imagine that would be the same over that side of town as well.