Rail Express is Australia's only indusrty-focused rail publication, delivering monthly news, views and analysis across key matters including infrastructure & investment, access & government policy, new rolling stock orders, and international developments. Rail Express comes as a part of your Lloyd's List DCN print subscriptions, or is available for subscription by clicking here.
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$30bn to catch up to Sydney demands
Up to $30bn needs to be spent upgrading Sydney's passenger rail system for it too meet future demands and service...
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Big task to upgrade country rail
Australia's biggest infrastructure construction firms are battling for a share of Victoria's $550m Regional Fast Rail Project. This is...
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Bombardier enters market on a roll
Since the international company Bombardier Transportation entered the Australian market with the acquisition of passenger rollingstock manufacturer Adtranz nearly 12...
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Countdown to NSW infrastructure action
The rail industry will know in the next few months whether its push for better infrastructure funding has paid off....
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The first Australia Southern Railroad (ASR) locomotive for use on Alice-Darwin construction trains was delivered to the work site at...
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Barclay Mowlem Construction subsidiary BMA and Alstom Australia have been awarded a $17m contract to construct a 15.5-km rail extension...
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Planning approval has been granted for the construction and operation of the 28-km Parramatta Rail Link. It includes more...
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Passengers are so much trouble
When rationalisation was everything, it was rumoured that within the corridors of Australian National there was a saying “if it...
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QR makes first move in southern freight drive
A powerful new contender has burst onto the NSW and national scene on the heels of the National Rail and...
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Rail growth will cut truck journeys
Freight rail services will attract nearly 2m tonnes of additional freight over the next three years, a 36% rise on...
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The Victorian architect Peter McIntyre will chair the design panel overseeing the Spencer Street Station redevelopment. He designed the...
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Planning is beginning for a new 19-km Sydney northwest rail link to serve its growing new suburbs in 10 to...
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Victoria bails out rail operators
Victoria's passenger rail privatisation experiment has not been the resounding success hoped for, with the State Government having to kick...
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WA opts for single utilities regulator
A single authority will be established by January 1 to regulate Western Australia's rail freight, electricity, water and gas industries....
Print Edition | March 2002
