Passengers slow to return to trains

There were 100 million fewer rail journeys in the first quarter of 2021 than in pre-covid times.

3 May, 2021

Report calls for investment in faster rail

Faster rail upgrades can be a more pragmatic way of improving the network than high speed rail.

22 February, 2021

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

40 years later, NSW’s XPT to be replaced

NSW is investing heavily in renewing rail.

25 June, 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 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

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

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

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 wrong side of the tracks when it comes to moving trains. In a release unambiguously headed ‘Train yourself (or die)’ passenger and freight rail operators, […]

12 August, 2013

Albanese stokes fire on High Speed Rail

By Julian Bajkowski Federal Labor might be a train wreck, but that hasn’t stopped Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Local Government and Regional Development Anthony Albanese from trying to keep industry and states and councils on track with bold plans to build a $144 billion high speed rail line between Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. The grand, […]

27 June, 2013