Walkers/Hitachi Electric Tilt Train (300 series)

The Tilt Trains, which joined the QR Fleet in 1998, were produced by one of Evans Deakins Industries' companies, Walkers Ltd. Maryborough, with Hitachi of Japan supplying the traction and tilting equipment. There are just two of them, each a 6-car set, and they run between Brisbane, Bundaberg and Rockhampton, covering the trip to Rockhampton in about seven hours. That cut a couple of hours off the original trip via the Spirit of Capricorn or any of the other North Coast long distance trains, mainly through the introduction of tilting technology.
A pneumatic ram smoothly assists the body of the carriage to "tilt" into the curves and enhances passenger comfort as the train powers through the countryside reaching speeds up to 160km/h

They can go a fair bit faster than that, too. On 23 May 1999 one of the sets reached 210km/h near Bundaberg, a world record for a passenger train on narrow gauge track.

The trains are also fitted out with Air Conditioning, reclining seats, on-board monitors, drivers cam, trip information highlight, seat entertainment points, on-board toilets and fully appointed galleys. Train drivers also have access to full computerised information about the performance of the train.

These stainless steel bodied trains continued the successful use of this material on all existing suburban and intercity rolling stock. Both sets are maintained at Mayne depot in Brisbane and are still running the Rockhampton and Bundaberg services more than 25 years on.