Government and industry in rail briefing

Industry and government have held a joint briefing in Melbourne to explore jobs in rail manufacturing

6 July, 2015

NSW uses Open Data to name and shame shonky businesses

Dominello promises to pass laws to expose Fair Trading complaints statistics.

7 May, 2015

Rail lobby tallies NSW Election promises

Vow to keep commitments on track.

26 March, 2015

Industry chuffed at VIC $30m to standardise freight rail

Movement on delayed journey to uniform gauges.

18 February, 2015

Rail industry stoked over NSW Budget $9bn transport spend

NSW Premier Mike Baird’s ambitious plan to overhaul and expand Sydney’s neglected transport infrastructure has won strong backing from peak groups, including the Australasian Railway Association and stands in sharp contrast with the federal Budget’s heavy emphasis on major roads.

18 June, 2014

Rail industry stoked over Victoria’s $11 billion Melbourne Airport Rail Link pledge

Australia’s peak railway body is cheering on the Victorian government’s big Budget allocation of $14.5 billion to key rail projects that it claims will “transform the state”.

8 May, 2014

Napthine pledges railway link to Melbourne airport in just time for election

Melbourne has long suffered from the lack of a heavy rail link to speed passengers and staff to Tullamarine airport. Now the Napthine government has unveiled ambitious plans to fix the infrastructure deficit in the run-up to the November election.

15 April, 2014

Rail industry tells feds to get creative with infrastructure funding

Australia’s peak railway body is pushing the federal government to tap into money held by superannuation funds to kickstart infrastructure projects it says are vital to the nation.

11 April, 2014

Queensland hunts for new freight rail operator

The anticipated growth of freight rail use over the next decade has led the Queensland government to look for a new operator to manage heavier and more frequent loads.

31 March, 2014

Rail lobby urges Port of Melbourne sale to be reinvested into rail

Australia’s peak rail body has insisted that the Victorian government reinvests the planned sale of the Port of Melbourne into other vital transport infrastructure across the state to boost economic activity.

7 March, 2014

Fresh probe considers shunting Queensland Rail onto national tracks

Queensland’s extensive system of freight lines could soon be integrated with the existing national network if an investigation by the federal rail operator can prove it’s a viable move.

27 February, 2014

Queensland transport minister tries to sell second-hand train toilets

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 he announced that “the Newman Government will sell 50 toilets to finally wipe clean Labor’s failed attempts to deliver regional train travel.” It’s still a […]

6 December, 2013

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 a major overhaul of the state’s public transport system. The big win for the Bombardier-led bid puts it at the front of the New Generation […]

21 November, 2013

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 the number of passenger journeys on trains and trams jumped by 15.4 million to 784.2 million. The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) is pushing the new […]

3 October, 2013