Connecting the nation.

Browse the network by horizon

The whole plan, by when.

Twelve corridors total. Built across about twenty-five years in three waves. Below are the horizon pages — each one shows the routes scheduled for that wave, with maps, summaries, and links to the full route pages.

Indicative sequencing horizons. Phase 0's 2027 commencement and 2035 operational date are the only locked timing — the rest is the realistic path the country could choose. Actual sequencing of post–Phase 0 work is set by political and economic momentum, capital partner sequencing, and community advocacy.

The overall plan, briefly

The shape of the network.

The Movement builds twelve corridors across the continent in eleven phases. Phase 0 is the spine — Melbourne to Brisbane, ~2,284 km. Phase 0-1 through Phase 0-7 are seven branches off the spine covering the populated eastern third — Hunter, Newcastle–Sydney, Western Sydney Airport, Far North Queensland, NSW mid-north coast, Melbourne–Adelaide, and Canberra–Eden. Phase 1 takes the network continental — Brisbane–Perth, Darwin–Adelaide, and the Alice Hub continental energy and water reserve. Phase 1-1 is the southwest WA spur — Perth to Albany. Phases 2 and 3 close the network — the northern corridors and the long-arc closure routes. About 22,400 kilometres of integrated multimodal corridor when the network is complete.

Each phase is funded from the operating revenue of the phase before it. Phase 0 funds Phase 1. Phase 1 funds Phase 2. The country builds the network the network can pay for — and the order is set by the country, after the country has seen what an integrated multimodal corridor actually does.

The rest of this page goes deep on Phase 0 and the first three spurs — the work that's funded, engineered, and ready to commence. For everything else, use the horizon pages above.

Phase 0 — The Spine

Melbourne to Brisbane.

Construction commencement 2027 · Operational 2035

Phase 0 is the backbone of the whole programme — the corridor everything else builds out from. It runs from Melbourne through the inland of Victoria and New South Wales up to Brisbane. About 2,284 kilometres. Mostly along existing rail and transmission corridors, so almost no new land needs to be acquired. Zero tunnels.

Read the full Phase 0 route page →

Direct journey times

Phase 0 — direct journeys

Journey	Distance	Maglev	Electric freight
Melbourne → Sydney	~870 km	1h 30min	3h 30min
Sydney → Brisbane	~920 km	1h 35min	3h 40min
Melbourne → Brisbane	2,284 km	3h 50min	9h 10min
Melbourne → Canberra	~660 km	1h 10min	2h 40min
Sydney → Canberra	~290 km	30min	1h 10min
Wagga Wagga → Sydney	~460 km	50min	1h 50min
Newcastle → Brisbane	~750 km	1h 20min	3h
Newcastle → Toowoomba	~620 km	1h 5min	2h 30min

Distances between intermediate cities are estimates against the Phase 0 inland alignment and may shift slightly as detailed engineering matures. The 2,284 km Melbourne–Brisbane figure is locked.

Direct point-to-point times. Maglev at peak speed (600 km/h sustained), electric freight at peak (around 250 km/h sustained on the dedicated multimodal viaduct). No intermediate stops — these are the numbers if you board and stay on. Real services stop at major stations along the way; that adds time per stop.

The places it goes through

Starting in Melbourne, Phase 0 runs north through northern Victoria — Bendigo, Echuca, Shepparton, Benalla, and Wangaratta — across the Murray River at Albury, then through Wagga Wagga and Goulburn to Western Sydney Airport. From WSA the spine heads inland across the Great Dividing Range through Bathurst and Dubbo, then north-east through Muswellbrook, Tamworth, Armidale, Warwick, and Toowoomba (via the Wellcamp Airport region) into Brisbane. Eighteen major regional stops along 2,284 kilometres, each a town that gets a maglev station and an electric freight terminal.

What it carries

Three electric freight tracks on the lower deck — replacing the diesel B-doubles that currently run the Hume and Newell Highways. Two maglev passenger tracks on the upper deck — running at 600 km/h between regional cities. HVDC transmission lines clipped to the same structure — finally connecting renewables to load centres. Water pipes, gas pipes, fibre optic cable. Ten different services. One corridor. One construction project. Built once.

How long

Phase 0 commissions in stages. The freight viaduct is built first and starts running in about Year 3 — generating revenue that funds the rest. The full corridor is operational by 2035.

Phase 0 Spurs — first three

The first three spurs.

Sequencing open · Built alongside Phase 0 commissioning

Three branches off the Phase 0 spine to be built in step with the spine itself. These three open up the highest-population corridors immediately — Hunter Valley, Newcastle to Sydney, and the new Western Sydney Airport corridor — turning Phase 0 from a spine into a working national network from the day it opens.