Queensland Rail Safety Derailments and Collisions, 2009-2016

Transport and Main Roads provides historical data on major rail safety occurrences on Queensland's running lines. The dataset covers derailments and collisions from 2009 to 2016, a period when TMR was the state's rail regulator. Responsibility for this data was transferred to the Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator (ONRSR) in 2017.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in major rail safety incidents based on the historical time series from 2009-2016
• Compare derailment and collision rates based on the two specified occurrence types
• Study the regulatory transition period based on the dataset's coverage of the TMR regulator era

Strengths

• Covers a specific 8-year time range from 2009 to 2016
• Focuses on two defined types of major safety occurrences: derailments and collisions
• Has a clear institutional provenance from the Department of Transport and Main Roads

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to data_gov_au as it has not been updated since 2016

Provenance

Source

Transport and Main Roads (TMR), Queensland

Collection Method

Legacy regulatory records from when TMR was the Rail Regulator in Queensland

Time Range

2009 to 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 03:20:34.875875; freshness should be verified

Geography

Queensland, Australia