Inland Rail ‘missing link’: Big plans for disused Brisbane quarry

BMI Group director Balfour Irvine said spoil from digging the ‘Missing Link’ freight tunnel could be used to fill his company’s Pine Mountain Road Quarry in Mount Gravatt East.At the current rate of rehabilitation, it could take 25 years for the land to be completely rehabilitated.But plans revealed by Mr Irvine and National Trunk Rail show that by launching the tunnel boring machines from the disused quarry, excavated material could take up to 250,000 trucks off Brisbane’s roads during…



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