Australasia rail industry news

Latest railway industry news from Australia and New Zealand, including operations, infrastructure, rolling stock and policy.

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ARTC shortlists Port Botany contractors

2020-01-13T15:22:00+00:00

AUSTRALIA: Five civil engineering groups have been shortlisted by Australian Rail Track Corp to undertake improvements to the freight lines serving the busy Port Botany south of Sydney.

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Local content emphasised as Alstom awarded Perth train contract

2019-12-10T09:36:00+00:00

AUSTRALIA: Public Transport Authority of Western Australia has formally signed the A$1·3bn contract for Alstom to supply and maintain diesel and electric multiple-units for use around Perth.

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‘Romance’ of rail can mitigate skills crisis

2019-12-05T09:34:00+00:00

AUSTRALIA: The rail sector needs to embrace rapid changes in workplace expectations in order to overcome a looming demographic crisis, delegates at the AusRail conference in Sydney heard on December 4.

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Hyundai Rotem ships its first inter-city trains to New South Wales

2019-12-04T13:29:00+00:00

AUSTRALIA: Hyundai Rotem has shipped the first 20 of 554 double-deck electric multiple-unit cars that it is supplying to New South Wales for use on NSW TrainLink inter-city services.

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‘Golden age’ in New South Wales, Collins tells AusRail

2019-12-03T09:04:00+00:00

AUSTRALIA: New South Wales is experiencing ‘a golden age’ of rail investment, Sydney Trains CEO Howard Collins told delegates at the AusRail 2019 conference in Sydney on December 3.

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Work starts on Perth suburban rail extension

2019-11-28T13:49:00+00:00

AUSTRALIA: The NEWest Alliance of CPB Contractors and Downer has been named preferred bidder to undertake the Yanchep Rail Extension and the Thornlie–Cockburn Link projects in Perth.

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Digital technology redefines safety for low-cost railways

2019-05-03T08:58:00+01:00By 4Tel (SPONSORED CONTENT)

SPONSORED CONTENT: ‘What we want to see is smart trains, but dumb track’, insists Derel Wust, Managing Director of Australian train control software specialist 4Tel. In most of the railway business, ‘we have smart track and dumb trains’, but he suggests that this is an ‘exceptionally expensive’ way to run ...

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