Last month GPT reignited the debate of termination of Newcastle rail line and it released an artist impression of its alternative to heavy rail – a green corridor.

However, local rail advocacy group, Save Our Rail, believes the corporation is hiding its true intentions.

It has a still taken from The GPT Group’s promotional video about its Newcastle development, which shows the rail corridor would not be turned into a green corridor as The GPT Group suggested.

The artist’s impression from the video shows Newcastle Railway Station turned into a high-rise building and Wharf Road cut in two and not the green corridor released to the public.

Save Our Rail president Joan Dawson said the only conclusion the group could come to was that The GPT Group had been influenced by some local developers.

“The only reasoning is that a local developer may be influencing GPT.”

However, The GPT Group’s project director Phil Heaney said he had no comment to make about Save Our Rail’s suggestion that a local developer had influenced its decision to have the rail line cut out of Newcastle – it was “ridiculous”.

“We don’t own any land there.”

Mr Heaney said the video still was part of a planner’s tool that was used to see how the Local Environment Plan fitted in with Newcastle’s central business district.

Instead of putting in the actual photo of the railway building, a building was used.

“I have asked for that oversight to be fixed.”

To see the GPT Group’s Newcastle development you can go to www.newcbd.gpt.com.au