By Julian Bajkowski and Paul Hemsley Queensland’s Minister for Transport Scott Emerson has left little to the imagination on what he thinks about the state’s previous train procurement efforts after…
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Truss leaves High Speed Rail door open
By Julian Bajkowski The prospect of Australia finally building a high speed passenger rail line along the East Coast of the continent has been softly revived by Deputy Prime Minister…
Queensland taps Bombardier to replace ageing train fleet
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski The Queensland government has tapped the Bombardier NGR Consortium as the selected tenderer to supply a new fleet of 75 six-car passenger trains in…
Canberra light rail momentum gains as Melbourne gets new Jumbo Tram
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski Australia’s metropolitan revival of light rail and tramways is showing no sign of slowing down soon. As the nation’s capital, Canberra, finally makes tentative…
Sydney orders new trams amid week-long derailment
By Paul Hemsley The New South Wales government has ordered six new light rail vehicles as it struggles to placate frustrated commuters hit by a week-long outage after two of…
Sydney’s Light Rail stoppage to roll on for days
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski Mystery continues to surround the cause of a series of derailments that have forced the closure of Sydney’s Light Rail services, with operator Transdev…
WA councils warn freight rail closure will rip-up local roads
By Paul Hemsley The Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA) has hit out at Brookfield Rail’s planned closure of two grain freight lines in the state’s Wheatbelt, claiming that the…
Rail Association gauges big spike in train usage
By Paul Hemsley New research commissioned by Australia’s peak rail body has found that the use of passenger, freight and light rail increased in dramatically between 2011 and 2012, after…
Rudd steers High Speed Rail pledge at Coalition
By Paul Hemsley Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made an ambitious bid to get Labor’s trailing electoral fortunes back on track on the East Coast by pitching the big-picture infrastructure…
Drivers warned to ‘Train yourself’ or die
By Julian Bajkowski Australia’s rail industry has launched its annual community safety awareness blitz, Rail Safety Week with a blunt message about the often lethal consequences of being on the…