Gold Coast railway line, Queensland

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Northern Lines
Brisbane CityTrain Lines
	Airport
	Caboolture
	Doomben
	Exhibition
	Ferny Grove
	Shorncliffe
Southern/Western Lines
	Beenleigh
	Cleveland
	Ipswich
Inter-urban lines
	Gold Coast (Robina)
	Nambour-Gympie North
	Rosewood
List of Brisbane railway stations

The Gold Coast (Robina) railway line is an interurban railway line in Queensland, Australia connecting Brisbane with the Gold Coast.

The Gold Coast (Robina) line continues on from where the Beenleigh line terminates at Beenleigh. Trains running from the Brisbane Airport connect with the Gold Coast line, allowing tourists more easy access to the Gold Coast's tourist destinations and hotels. It also allows locals easier access to more international destinations than are available from the Gold Coast's own airport. When the Airport spur is unavailable, Gold Coast trains terminate at Bowen Hills.

The line will be extended and upgraded with new stations over the next decade. Firstly, a 4.1 km extension to Reedy Creek will be built. Track will be duplicated between Ormeau and Coomera and then between Helensvale and Robina, leaving an isolated single track section spanning the Coomera River. Then, the railway will be progressively extended south until it reaches the Tugun Bypass, running alongside it and passing under the threshold of runway 32 at the Gold Coast Airport, before looping around to the terminus near the airport carpark. Part of this last stage will pass through into New South Wales. Also, under the Draft TransLink Network Plan, reservations are to be made for possible new infill stations between Beenleigh and Ormeau and at Coomera North, Helensvale North, Parkwood and Merrimac on the existing line. Services will also be upgraded with higher frequencies and capacity, made possible by the track duplication south (and triplication north) of Beenleigh.