--- title: Traveltrain patronage by quarter, Queensland resource: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/ publisher: Department of Transport and Main Roads licence: CC BY 3.0 AU licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ version: 2025-04-29 rows: 17 fields: 5 source: https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/8ebeca94-d7a2-4541-bc65-5c387e571dd2/resource/95887069-69a7-457c-ae00-c1342d742201/download/traveltrain-patronage-by-quarter.csv source_sha256: b52ae1eb1d9a76437b756c08a99198aa0d18ea4749f89df8d109fff661411413 language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Traveltrain patronage by quarter, Queensland Passenger trips on Queensland's Traveltrain long-distance rail services in each quarter of each financial year from 2008-09. Published by Department of Transport and Main Roads under CC BY 3.0 AU and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Department of Transport and Main Roads has not endorsed this site. Also called: Traveltrain service patronage quarterly, Queensland long distance train passenger numbers, Spirit of Queensland and Tilt Train patronage. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/v/2025-04-29/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/latest/data.csv (638 B) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/latest/data.xlsx (8.5 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/latest/data.json (3.7 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/latest/data.parquet (6.4 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/latest/data.sqlite (29 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/latest/data.duckdb (100 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/latest/data.ndjson (3.3 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/latest/data.arrow (5.4 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/latest/data.csv.gz (347 B) Pinned version 2025-04-29: `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/v/2025-04-29/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Query The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-traveltrain-patronage/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-traveltrain-patronage/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-traveltrain-patronage/rows?limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-traveltrain-patronage/aggregate?group=year&metric=sum.quarter_1 Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. - `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent. - `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. - `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you. - `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated. - `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent. - `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists the loaded versions. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `year` | string | Year | | | `quarter_1` | integer | Quarter 1 | | | `quarter_2` | integer | Quarter 2 | | | `quarter_3` | integer | Quarter 3 | | | `quarter_4` | integer | Quarter 4 | | Key: `year`. ## Versions - 2025-04-29: 17 rows, 5 fields, sha256 b52ae1eb1d9a. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/v/2025-04-29/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/history.tar.zst ## Same subject, other publishers - [Annual patronage by metropolitan train station, Melbourne](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-metro-train-station-patronage/) (Vic) - [Annual patronage by regional train station, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-regional-train-station-patronage/) (Vic) ## Attribution and citation Department of Transport and Main Roads, Queensland Government, Traveltrain patronage, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/traveltrain-patronage, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Department of Transport and Main Roads, Queensland Government, Traveltrain patronage, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/traveltrain-patronage, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/v/2025-04-29/ Harvard: Department of Transport and Main Roads (2025) Traveltrain patronage by quarter, Queensland, version 2025-04-29 [data set], CC BY 3.0 AU, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/v/2025-04-29/ Markdown: Data: [Traveltrain patronage by quarter, Queensland](https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/traveltrain-patronage), Department of Transport and Main Roads, [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/v/2025-04-29/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Traveltrain patronage by quarter as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/v/2025-04-29/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Traveltrain patronage by quarter in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/v/2025-04-29/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 17 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traveltrain-patronage/v/2025-04-29/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### What years does Traveltrain patronage by quarter cover? The current version covers the years since 2008. Each release from Transport and Main Roads becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online. ### How often is Traveltrain patronage by quarter updated? Transport and Main Roads releases it irregularly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Traveltrain patronage by quarter commercially? Yes. CC BY 3.0 AU allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Traveltrain patronage by quarter? No. The publisher is Department of Transport and Main Roads, and its page is https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/traveltrain-patronage. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### What is in each row? Each row is one financial year, written as 2008-09, with the number of passenger trips on Traveltrain long-distance rail services in each of its four quarters. Quarter 1 is July to September. The newest financial year leaves a quarter blank until the publisher reports it. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.csv`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/qld-traveltrain-patronage.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/qld-traveltrain-patronage.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.