Premier to meet with QR over timetable

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will be seeking assurances the new Queensland Rail timetable is up to scratch when she meets with Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe on Wednesday.

Ms Palaszczuk again hit out at QR's "appalling" failure to notify the government about the driver shortage but continued to stand by Mr Hinchliffe even as she insisted on a personal briefing about the new timetable.

"I want to be reassured and I want to sit down with the minister and the acting CEO (of QR) because I need an assurance this rail timetable is going to work," she told ABC Radio on Tuesday.

When asked why Mr Hinchliffe continued to have her support when other people had been sacked over the fiasco, Ms Palaszczuk said it was because she wanted him to "fix this up".

"I think that it is appalling that QR failed to notify the minister," she said.

"My understanding is that the minister was asking the questions and he was being assured all along that everything was fine and frankly that's not good enough."

QR's long-awaited 2017 timetable was released on Monday ahead of its January 23 start.

Phillip Strachan will deliver his independent review of QR to Ms Palaszczuk at the end of January.

The review will then go to the cabinet for its consideration.