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The Victorian Government is to spend an extra $61m on its regional fast rail project to improve the track design...
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It was billed as John Anderson's $2bn sweetener for road and rail, but when the details of the “AusLink downpayment”...
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All trains lead to Darwin for technical conference
With fewer than five months to go, the 2004 Conference on Railway Engineering (CORE2004) is already generating strong interest. ...
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Costa raises the safety bar in wake of Waterfall report
A couple of quick-fire sackings and a flurry of trumpeted safety initiatives have formed the broad thrust of RailCorp's response...
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CountryLink gets 12-month reprieve
New South Wales's CountryLink service has received a stay of execution for at least 12 months while its fare and...
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Work on the $2bn railway joining Melbourne to Gladstone, south of Rockhampton, is set to start next year after agreement...
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Device lifts the bar on wagon safety for Pacific National
Engineering firm GH Varley has completed the installation of air operated lids on 315 Pacific National grain wagons. The...
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The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has recommended that park brakes be applied to all trains when the driver's cabin is...
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Liberalistion of Europe's freight and passenger networks has been temporarily sidetracked by European Union member states. The council of...
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FreightLink's first trans-continental freight train from Adelaide pulled into Darwin's east Arm Port on January 17 to culminate years of...
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In just a month the first freight train on the Adelaide-Darwin railway will begin its journey hauling the hopes of...
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The arrival of the first Ghan service from Adelaide to Darwin on February 3 capped off the most...
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While FreightLink is banking on some degree of optimism for Adelaide-Darwin railway, Great Southern Railway (GSR) is already counting the...
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Grain harvest lifts ARG volumes
A vastly improved grain season has lifted Australian Railroad Group (ARG) wagon volumes 12.5% for the final quarter of 2003....
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THE Australian Rail Track Corporation has agreed to spend $872m on the leased New South Wales track between 2004 and...
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Keeping track: Prankster a right dummy
Tranz Rail management has condemned a prank that led one of its train drivers to believe he had struck and...
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Lease deal puts industry back on track
Australia's rail industry breathed a collective sigh of relief when Federal and New South Wales governments closed the deal finally...
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Level playing field in rail funding
AusLink will give the rail industry a “level playing field” when it comes to funding consideration for major projects, the...
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No holds barred as SRA rail safety
The former New South Wales State Rail Authority (SRA) was slammed for its approach to rail safety in Peter McInerney's...
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Note big picture in quest for efficiency
A couple of weeks ago, I watched a grain train take hours to load in country South Australia. The...
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Organisational dog's breakfast: How McInerney saw SRA's role in accident.
• Inadequate SRA medical standards did not anticipate and manage the risk of safety-critical personnel. • The Tangara deadman...
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The Port of Melbourne Corporation will reach its set target of moving 30% of port cargo on rail by 2010....
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Queensland hungry for more projects in Asia
Queensland Rail (QR) has secured a $36m construction contract with the Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation. The contract was awarded...
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Australia's rail industry will face a skills shortage crisis unless steps are taken to encourage careers in rail, New South...
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StateRail figures 'misleading'
The office of the New South Wales auditor-general has slammed the StateRail Authority over misleading performance figures in its reports....
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An intensive rail safety campaign in the Australian Railroad Group (ARG) during 2003 has made dramatic reductions in the number...
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What's in a year after Darwin?
While 2003 originally promised to be an exciting year for rail, in the end many issues remained unresolved and the...
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World briefs – China dumps Maglev
The 1,250-km Beijing-Shanghai high speed railway will be built using conventional rail technology and not maglev – halving the cost...
Print Edition | February 2004
