Proposed new inland rail freight line

PROPOSED INLAND RAIL FREIGHT

* Runs 1700 kilometres from Brisbane - through Moree, Parkes and Wagga Wagga in central NSW - to Melbourne.

* Estimated to cost $10.7 billion with construction to take 10 years.

* Will cut 10 hours from Brisbane-Melbourne trip.

* Will replace an estimated 200,000 truck journeys each year and take freight trains off congested Sydney lines.

* Will require 600 kilometres of new track, with $450 million needed to buy real estate.

* 60 per cent of funding to be spent in Queensland because of extensive upgrading to existing track.

* Trains will initially be 1.8 kilometres long and eventually 3.6 kilometres, with containers stacked two high.