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.

Print Edition | October 2004

• A Brit spit and polish for Poland

  Poland is to bring in engineering consultants from the UK to supervise construction work needed to improve its 23,000 km-long...

• Canadians save a grain line

  A group of Canadian farmers has bought a closure-threatened 500 km stretch of railway to protect railside investments and avoid...

• Fast rail up for more construction

  Victoria's regional fast rail project has begun the second stage of major construction on the Latrobe Valley line. The...

• First train on New MetroRail project

  Train services have begun on the first completed section of Perth's Northern Suburbs Railway extension. Five new three-car trains...

• Ghan stamps its mark on Australia Post

  Train enthusiasts and stamp collectors should prepare to jump on board Australia Post's September 7, 2004 stamp issue celebrating the...

• It couldn't possible happen here, could it?

  In India, the minister for railways is fast becoming a national joke with his quaint approach to the portfolio. Already...

• Nothing link luxury on a rail journey

  One of the pinnacles of post-war luxury rail travel in the UK was the world-famous Golden Arrow Pullman...

• NZ aims for rail freight and commuter revival

  The New Zealand Government has released its draft National Rail Strategy for the next 10 years. A key emphasis...

• Patrick awaits hearing on Ingleburn facility

  Patrick has won a four-week adjournment in the New South Wales Land and Environment Court to reconsider the State Government's...

• PN deal boosts EDI Rail's hopes for RailCorp program

  EDI Rail's recently secured five-year maintenance contract with Pacific National will help strengthen the firm's bid for the upcoming New...

• PN phases out trailerail services

  Pacific National is in the process of replacing its trailerail services with five-pack wagons on Sydney-Perth and Melbourne-Perth routes, the...

• Rail delivers records on ARTC network

  Rail freight volumes on Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) controlled interstate networks are breaking monthly records, the organisation has reported....

• Rail freight privatisation under fire in the west

  Rail privatisation in Western Australia has failed to deliver any of the promised benefits to the state's freight rail system,...

• Stampspotting – 50 years of Australian railways

  Which Australian prime minister was the youngest First Class locomotive driver in his state? Which Australian island territory operated...

• Task for FreightLink is to get first mine in

  Chris Taylor, Sy2dney New FreightLink chief executive John Fullerton will aim to build on an encouraging start to international...

• The man who saved the Channel Tunnel

  Sir Alastair Morton, the man credited with saving the Channel Tunnel construction project, has died aged 66. Sir Alastair,...

• Track soft spot suspect in derailment

  Investigators are continuing to search for the cause of freight train derailment in Victoria that forced the closure of the...

• UK rail's incredible journey from Stone Age to supertrain

  Sixgigantic tunnel-boring machines have churned 35 km of tunnels under London in a major step towards the completion of the...

Print edition Rail Express archives

Latest web only Rail Express headlines