Today’s QR:

In 2007 QR became a Company Government Owned Corporation, and is now registered as a public company "QR Limited".

QR Limited (QR) generates more than $3.5 billion of revenue per annum and is one of Australia’s largest transport and logistics companies. On any day QR operates more than 1,000 train services, moves more than 669,000 tonnes of freight and carries over 170,000 passengers to work, home, events and other destinations.

Key facts

• With a history dating back more than 140 years, it has more than $11 billion of assets and annual revenue of more than $3.5 billion.
• QR delivers its products and services through three customer-facing businesses – Freight, Passenger and Network. It also operates a Services business.
• The company moved 244 million tonnes of freight in 2007/08, more than any other company in Australia.
• It also provided 62.7 million passenger journeys in the same period.
• QR is one of Australia’s largest employers with over 15,000 employees in approximately 300 job categories spread across more than 500 locations nationwide.
• Safety is a fundamental principal at QR and its other priorities are customer service, commercial focus and growth.
• For the past 14 years QR has maintained a passenger safety record at world’s best level.
• Since early 2007, QR has adopted a ZERO Harm Strategy and is making significant progress on implementation.
• From its beginnings in Queensland, State Government-owned QR has expanded nationally and now has coal, bulk freight and intermodal operations in other states.

QR's key businesses:

• QR Freight - Bulk, Retail & Intermodal
• QR Passenger - Citytrain, Traveltrain, Tourist Train & Heritage
• QR Services - Rollingstock & Component Services, Infrastructure projects, Asset services & Engineering; and
• QR Network - Coal systems, Freight systems, South East Queensland & Interstate services
• QR Coal - COALRail Infrastructure Program, Coal Supply Chain