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    Print Edition | August 2003

  • Ararat service awaits signals upgrade

    The return of Victorian passenger rail services to Ararat will be delayed to end of the year, state transport minister...

  • Dial GSM-R for railway links

    The latest European mobile phone technology should help provide the answer to Australia's nightmare mish-mash of incompatible railway communications systems....

  • Growers challenge grain set-up

    The shift in wheat production to the western regions of New South Wales will place critical importance on maintaining branch...

  • Hub at Coota

    Chris Taylor, Sydney Pacific National has opened headquarters in Cootamundra, to manage the southern New South Wales region of...

  • In search of a rail profile

    The rail industry has never been any good at self-promotion, which is partly a legacy of decades government ownership that...

  • Letting the sunshine help out

    The Alice-Darwin rail line runs through some of the world's harshest terrain and Westinghouse Signals Australia has had to design...

  • Not good enough, Costa warns EDI, rail bodies

    New South Wales transport services minister Michael Costa has issued hinted at punishments for both public and private elements of...

  • Pacific National ready to settle

    Pacific National and the rail unions are back at the table to try and hammer out a final deal on...

  • Patrick slams Newcastle container terminal plans

    Newcastle port's inadequate train connections to Sydney make it a poor choice for a multi-purpose container terminal, Patrick Corporation chief...

  • Portables speed rail loading

    South Australian-based Ausbulk has unveiled one of its secret weapons in the battle for market supremacy in the increasingly competitive...

  • QR snaps up interstate work

    Queensland Rail has enjoyed another successful month for poaching interstate business with contracts in Western Australia and New South Wales....

  • Rail hubs need better case

    Britain's Strategic Rail Authority is hard at work on new policy guidelines to strengthen the planning approval case for UK...

  • Record test run

    A Eurostar 14-carriage train reached 334.7 km/h in safety testing on the new Channel Tunnel Rail Link in Kent on...

  • State help for heritage groups

    A $125,0000 South Australian Government fund has offered the state's heritage rail sector a glimmer of hope in its insurance...

  • Testing bearings on move

    Western Australia's WestNet Rail has invested $2.3m in a wayside monitoring system that will provide early warnings of bearing defects....

  • Track compromise deal with NSW on table: Anderson

    There is now a compromise on the table that could see the New South Wales interstate track leased to the...

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