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July 2025
CMPA made two submissions in 2024/25 for inclusion of the Concept Plan for C2E in plans of the NSW Government. The plans proposed in which to embed C2E were:
– Freight Policy Consultations, invited April 2024, and
– Draft South East and Tablelands Strategic Regional Integrated Transport Plan, submissions invited December 2024.
The two submissions, including two supplementary letters in the first submission, were since put together in a single document, published July 2025, and lodged in the National Library, with weblink: https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn10155932 and are reproduced as follows:
Submissions-2024-25The CMPA is pleased to share a tri-fold pamphlet for the C2E Railway proposal which may be viewed and downloaded below.
Brochure-July-2025February 2025
Following is the updated railway map diagram showing Route to Eden via Canberra:
Route-to-Eden-via-Canberra-1June 2024
The Concept Plan for Canberra to Eden Railway (C2E) by engineer and economist Edwin Michell, 2018, provides for freight trains and passenger trains on the same line. Tilting passenger trains would run at speeds of up to 160 kilometres per hour; freight trains would run at up to 115 kilometres per hour. Cooma would be brought into more convenient commuting range of Canberra. Some of Canberra’s population growth would be transferred to Monaro townships.
Having conferred with the ACT Government, CMPA supports adding the proposed Canberra to Yass railway (C2Y) to connect with C2E. The alignment is provided in the C2Y design report, 1969, by Commonwealth Railways. C2Y would shorten the rail route between Inland Rail (now under construction) and Eden by about 80 kilometres compared with the previous route via Joppa Junction near Goulburn.
May 2024
CMPA is pleased to publish, following, Economic Evaluation of the Proposed Canberra to Eden Railway by leading international transport economist R J Nairn BE, BEc, FIEAust.
The Evaluation includes data researched in 2021 by the same author as of Canberra to Eden Rail: Record of Economic Data for the Proposal and web-published by CMPA in 2022 without individual attribution, at the author’s request at that time.
C2E-econ-evaln-10May-1
June 2023
National Archives web-published on 28 March 2023 the Commonwealth Railways 1969 [Design] Report on Canberra-Yass Railway (C2Y).
CMPA adopted the design, subject to consultation with the ACT Government. CMPA submitted to Transport for NSW in June 2023 a late revision of its planning submission of February 2023 on C2E.
The revised submission can be downloaded below, also downloadable is a map showing Proposed Route to Eden via Canberra.
SETbl-lands-RegnlTportPlnSubm-2023June 2022
The Latest contribution of economic data, supporting the Snowy Monaro Regional Council’s 2021 recommendations to the NSW Premier
Rail-Data-Record-CMPA-May2022August 2021
Snowy Monaro Regional Council recommends expeditious economic assessment of Michell’s 2018 Concept Plan for Canberra to Eden Railway. The Council’s area encompasses most of the proposed railway. The recommendation was sent by emailed letter to the NSW Premier. Read the letter and acknowledgement below
2021-08-30-Letter-from-CEO-Peter-Bascomb-to-NSW-Premier-Gladys-Berejiklian-Canberra-to-Eden-Railway-Study A5088044-REPLYAuthor of the Canberra to Eden Railway Concept Plan, Edwin Michell, published two articles in May 2021 on the Canberra to Eden Railway Feasibility Study, full report of 29 October 2019. The conclusion of the two articles after the Review published by CMPA, dated March 2021 is that, beyond reasonable objection, the Feasibility Study is fatally flawed; and therefore cannot be used to justify the rejection of this critical national infrastructure project. Michell substantiated the Benefit-Cost Ratio of the project being more than thirty times greater than reported in the Feasibility Study, Executive Summary, May 2020. The two articles are:
Michell-reviews-cover-pageReviews of the Canberra to Port of Eden Feasibility Study
Review-March-1 Media-release-edited-12oct20.-docxThe Proposal
CMPA has agitated and lobbied for some time for consideration of the re-establishment of the disused rail link between Canberra and Bombala.
However the success of the introduction of cruise ships to Eden, and the potential of developing Eden as a major NSW industrial and tourist port, prompted us to expand the concept to include Eden as an obvious potential final destination for that link.
How do you design a railway to safely deliver a freight train down an impossibly steep slope? For a recent Canberra to Eden proposal, the answer lay in history. Read More Here.
In August 2018 the NSW State Government announced the provision of $1million for a feasibility study for the proposal. Click HERE to view the facebook announcements.
The extension of the Queanbeyan-Bombala railway to the Port of Eden would realise a century-old dream.
This concept study finds that the existing route between Canberra and Bombala could be rebuilt to modern standards at modest cost, and also that the engineering difficulties of a new route descending the South Coast Range between Bombala and Eden are not insurmountable.
For a detailed eight page summary of the proposed project, use THIS LINK to see the content of talks given to the Transport Australia Society of Engineers Australia and the November 2018 Snowy Region Development Conference by Edwin Michell, author of the below documents
Click HERE to view the Canberra Times report.
Note: Each of the four documents below can be downloaded by following the directions after the PAGE AFTER the cover of the fourth document.
Note: Please hover your cursor down the bottom of the documents to activate navigation arrows.
CMPA-Canberra-Eden-Railway CMPA-C_E-Railway-Part-2 CMPA-Financial-Cost-Benefit-Analysis CMPA-Socioeconomic-CB-Analysis Insert-in-SocioEc-analysisTo Download / Save the Documents Please click the following links.
Part 1 – Concept
Part 2 – Preliminary Construction Estimates
Part 3 – Cost Benefit Analysis Part A
Part 4 – Cost Benefit Analysis Part B
