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Figure 24 Potential Freight Link connection to Webb Dock & other capacity
enhancement options

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8. Rail Network Capacity
8.1 Overview
This section looks at rail network capacity at the Port of Melbourne, and considers how such
capacity may benefit port operations.

8.2 Demand for rail transport supporting Victorian container ports

Current demand for rail transport to the Port of Melbourne for containerised goods is generally
focussed on export products transported through regional intermodal terminals across Victoria
and interstate locations into southern NSW. Core export products vary across the port
catchment areas, but typically include:

 Meat and dairy from Warrnambool

 Wine, fruit, vegetables, grain, feed and mineral sands at Merbein and Donald

 Rice, grains and mixed products at Deniliquin and Tocumwal

 Paper products at Maryvale

Regional intermodal trains generate a rail demand of up to 18 one-way trips across the network
on peak days and compete for network access with passenger trains, other freight trains
carrying grain, aggregate, steel and rail maintenance trains and works.

These regional exports train services operating through intermodal terminals including:

 Dooen, (SG)

 Merbein, BG – soon SG

 Donald (BG – Soon SG

 Deniliquin, BG

 Mooroopna, BG

 Tocumwal BG (NSW),

 Warrnambool, BG
 LOGIC Wodonga, SG

 Maryvale, BG

 Morwell BG (proposed)
 Ettamogah (NSW) SG,

 Griffith(NSW) SG

 Bomen (NSW), SG and

 Harefield (NSW),SG (currently utilised for traffic to Port Botany)

Note: (BG) = Broad Gauge; (SG) = Standard Gauge; (DG) = Dual Gauge

These terminals operate on either Broad Gauge rail lines (BG) or Standard Gauge rail Lines
(SG) which highlights the need for a dual gauge network to support these exports in the port
precincts.

The locations of the key regional terminals handling export products is presented in Figure 25.

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