http://www.railexpress.com.au daily 1 2009-02-15T23:56:33Z http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-10-2010/other-top-stories/accc-draft-decision-to-reject-artcs-hunter-plan The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has signalled its rejection of proposed rail access arrangements which would affect coal shipments through the port of Newcastle. No publisher Rail Express Weekly Top Stories Rail 2010-03-09T03:09:52Z News Item http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-10-2010/Bligh-to-ignore-miners-stance-on-QR-sell-off%20 Queensland coal producers have united to bid for ownership of QR’s coal rail network in central Queensland in the face of an unyielding position from the state government. No publisher Rail Express Weekly Top Stories Rail 2010-03-10T02:27:54Z News Item http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-10-2010/other-top-stories/news-in-brief-2013-3-9-march-2010 No publisher Rail Express Weekly Top Stories Rail 2010-03-10T02:06:27Z News Item http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-10-2010/other-top-stories/feds-should-fix-public-transport-say-industry-and-experts With congestion costing more than $10bn a year, passenger transport groups presented an action plan to fix public transport to federal transport minister Anthony Albanese on March 8th. No publisher Rail Express Weekly Top Stories Rail 2010-03-10T02:56:04Z News Item http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-10-2010/other-top-stories/rail-investment-to-bear-freight-fruit-bitre The Bureau of Infrastructure Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) expects rail freight timetables to change by mid-year to reflect investment in infrastructure, especially between Sydney and Melbourne. No publisher Rail Express Weekly Top Stories Rail 2010-03-09T02:16:20Z News Item http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-10-2010/other-top-stories/national-freight-strategy-in-the-slow-lane The Federal Government could go to the next election without a national freight strategy, with Australia's transport and logistics industry doubtful the long-awaited policy will be tabled until the end of the year. No publisher Rail Express Weekly Top Stories Rail 2010-03-09T01:43:06Z News Item http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-10-2010/other-top-stories/accc-backs-junior-iron-ore-push-for-rail-access Australia’s competition regulator has thrown its support behind a group of junior iron ore producers looking to collectively bargain for access to the rail tracks owned by their larger counterparts in the Pilbara region. No publisher Rail Express Weekly Top Stories Rail 2010-03-10T03:05:14Z News Item http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-10-2010/other-top-stories/new-report-shows-congestion-to-cost-20bn-by-2020 Road congestion could cost the economy $20bn by 2020 unless urgent action is taken, a new report shows. No publisher perryj 2010-03-10T01:59:19Z News Item http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-10-2010/other-top-stories/standardising-locos-the-2018way-of-the-future2019-ugl-rail Standardising locomotives is the “way of the future” for UGL Rail and the next logical step for the Australian rail industry, according to UGL Rail chief executive Dean Jenkins. No publisher Rail Express Weekly Top Stories Rail 2010-03-10T01:53:11Z News Item http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-10-2010/other-top-stories/qr-structure-the-right-one-for-all-players-hockridge Comparisons between the de-monopolisation of Telstra and the likely structure of a listed QR National were unfair, because the markets within which the two companies operated were like "chalk and cheese", QR chief executive Lance Hockridge said on March 8th. No publisher Rail Express Weekly Top Stories Rail 2010-03-10T00:40:30Z News Item http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-03-2010/other-top-stories/shares-drop-as-toll-hit-by-revenue-and-profit-fall Toll Holdings’ after tax profit slumped 32% in the first half of 2009/10 and the transport and logistics operator forecasts that its second-half performance will be much the same. No publisher Rail Express Weekly Top Stories Rail 2010-03-02T11:50:51Z News Item http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-03-2010/other-top-stories/news-in-brief-2013-24-february-2-march-2010 No publisher Rail Express Weekly Top Stories Rail 2010-03-02T23:36:15Z News Item http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-03-2010/other-top-stories/qr-places-16-000-staff QR has reached the completion of staff placement for more than 16,000 employees throughout Australia. No publisher Rail Express Weekly Top Stories Rail 2010-03-02T23:30:46Z News Item http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-03-2010/other-top-stories/the-copenhagen-accord-what-actually-happened-and-how What do you do when you have a two-track negotiation framework that stalls? You open up a third track. That is effectively what happened in Copenhagen at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. No publisher Rail Express Weekly Top Stories Rail 2010-03-02T23:29:09Z News Item http://www.railexpress.com.au/archive/2010/march/march-03-2010/other-top-stories/how-trams-can-help-meet-urban-transport-challenges With the world’s cities now growing by more than one million people every week and car ownership growing two times faster than the population, we are rapidly heading towards a billion-car planet. No publisher Rail Express Weekly Top Stories Rail 2010-03-02T23:24:54Z News Item